Bidirectional Text-Display and Text-Selection Vulnerability in Apple OS X Terminal

CVE-2015-5883 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

The bidirectional text-display and text-selection implementations in Terminal in Apple OS X before 10.11 interpret directional override formatting characters differently, which allows remote attackers to spoof the content of a text document via a crafted character sequence.

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