CVE-2014-8823 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=21 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html http://support.apple.com/HT204244 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031650 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100514