Mac OS X Multiple EFI Vulnerabilities (EFI Security Update 2015-001)

The remote Mac OS X host is running EFI firmware that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An insufficient locking issue exists, when resuming from sleep states, which allows a local attacker to write to the EFI flash memory by using an crafted application with root privileges. CVE-2015-36...

Row Hammer Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

On March 9, 2015, new research was published that takes advantage of a flaw in double data rate type 3 DDR3 synchronous dynamic random-access memory SDRAM to perform privilege escalation attacks on systems that contain the affected hardware. The flaw is known as Row Hammer. To attempt an attack,...