CVE-2016-7580 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-7580?

CVE-2016-7580 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 20 Feb 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12 is affected. The issue involves the "Mail" component, which allows remote web servers to cause a denial of service via a crafted URL.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7580?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Mac Os X.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7580?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-7580 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-2016-7580 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7580 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-hm4g-9p57-m283.