CVE-2015-7551 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2015-7551?

CVE-2015-7551 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 24 Mar 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Fiddle::Handle implementation in ext/fiddle/handle.c in Ruby before 2.0.0-p648, 2.1 before 2.1.8, and 2.2 before 2.2.4, as distributed in Apple OS X before 10.11.4 and other products, mishandles tainting, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted string, related to the DL module and the libffi library. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-5147 regression.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7551?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Ruby-Lang Ruby.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7551?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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

Is CVE-2015-7551 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7551 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apple Mac Os X

• CVE-2014-7169 GNU Bourne-Again Shell (Bash) Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-6271 GNU Bourne-Again Shell (Bash) Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2012-1823 PHP-CGI Query String Parameter Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-30713 Apple macOS Unspecified Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2019-8526 Apple macOS Use-After-Free Exploited High 7.8

All Apple Mac Os X vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-m9xr-x5mq-4fp5, MGASA-2016-0007, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7551.