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CVE-2014-8611

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-09-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The __sflush function in fflush.c in stdio in libc in FreeBSD 10.1 and the kernel in Apple iOS before 9 mishandles failures of the write system call, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via a crafted application.

Affected products

• Apple Iphone Os: through 8.4.1
• macOS: through 10.10.5
• FreeBSD: 10.1

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
• https://support.apple.com/HT205212
• https://support.apple.com/HT205267
• https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=275665
• https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:27.stdio.asc
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
• https://support.apple.com/HT205212
• https://support.apple.com/HT205267
• https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=275665
• https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:27.stdio.asc

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