Denial of Service Vulnerability in Apple Products via Mishandling of Crafted Strings in libc Component

CVE-2017-7086 · HIGH Severity

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

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. macOS before 10.13 is affected. tvOS before 11 is affected. watchOS before 4 is affected. The issue involves the "libc" component. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted string that is mishandled by the glob function.

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