CVE-2014-8611 Information

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.

Reference

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