EUVD-2014-8653

Malware in sbrugna...

Memory corruption

The IOUSBControllerUserClient::ReadRegister function in the IOUSB controller in IOUSBFamily in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 allows local users to read data from arbitrary kernel-memory locations by leveraging root access and providing a crafted first argument...

Apple MAC OS X Yosemite IOUSB Controller User Client Function Memory Access Vulnerability

Apple MAC OS X Yosemite is the latest operating system developed by Apple. A memory access vulnerability exists in Apple MAC OS X Yosemite's handling of the IOUSB controller user client function, which allows a privileged application to read arbitrary data from kernel memory...