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An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15.4. A local user may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 22, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(11th percentile)

Weaknesses

Out-of-bounds Read

The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2020-9779

GHSA ID

GHSA-cw24-r423-cm2q

Source code

No known source code

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