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CVE-2013-5142

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-09-19 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The kernel in Apple iOS before 7 does not initialize unspecified kernel data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via the (1) msgctl API or (2) segctl API.

Affected products

• Apple Iphone Os: through 6.1.4; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 (+41)

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00006.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5934
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029054
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00006.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5934
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029054

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