CVE-2016-4701 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-4701?

CVE-2016-4701 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 25 Sep 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Application Firewall in Apple OS X before 10.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors involving a crafted SO_EXECPATH environment variable.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-4701?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Mac Os X.

How do I fix CVE-2016-4701?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-4701 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-4701 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-4701 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-c9wx-c62r-fqp7.