CVE-2014-4398 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2014-4398?

CVE-2014-4398 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 19 Sep 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

An unspecified integrated graphics driver routine in the Intel Graphics Driver subsystem in Apple OS X before 10.9.5 does not properly validate calls, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted application, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-4394, CVE-2014-4395, CVE-2014-4396, CVE-2014-4397, CVE-2014-4399, CVE-2014-4400, CVE-2014-4401, and CVE-2014-4416.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-4398?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Mac Os X.

How do I fix CVE-2014-4398?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-4398 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2014-4398 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-4398 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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