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CVE-2016-8661

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
15/11/2016
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.6.1 suffer from a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be locally exploited which could lead to an escalation of privileges (EoP) and unauthorised ring0 access to the operating system. The buffer overflow is related to insufficient checking of parameters to the "OSMalloc" and "copyin" kernel API calls.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.40 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
8.40
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.20
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:obdev:little_snitch:3.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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