CVE-2015-5522 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-5522?

CVE-2015-5522 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Apple Iphone Os, published on 11 Aug 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ParseValue function in lexer.c in tidy before 4.9.31 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving a command character in an href.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5522?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Apple Iphone Os, Apple Mac Os X, Apple Watchos, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Htacg Tidy.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5522?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-5522 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5522 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apple Iphone Os

• CVE-2021-30666 Apple iOS WebKit Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2021-30761 Apple iOS WebKit Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2021-30762 Apple iOS WebKit Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2016-4657 Apple iOS Webkit Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-7286 Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Apple Iphone Os vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-wp28-phrj-p6rh, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5522.