Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service Vulnerability in libpthread

CVE-2015-5757 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

libpthread in Apple iOS before 8.4.1 and OS X before 10.10.5 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via an app that uses a crafted syscall to interfere with locking.

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