AppleSMC Component Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2016-4678 · MEDIUM Severity

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

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. The issue involves the "AppleSMC" component. It allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.

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