CVE-2016-8661

Published Nov 15, 2016 CVSS 3.0 · 8.4 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.6.1 suffer from a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be locally exploited which could lead to an escalation of privileges (EoP) and unauthorised ring0 access to the operating system. The buffer overflow is related to insufficient checking of parameters to the "OSMalloc" and "copyin" kernel API calls.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-9500 Little Snitch version 3.0 through 3.6.1 suffer from a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be locally exploited which could lead to an escalation of privileges (EoP) and unauthorised ring0 access to the operating system. The buffer overflow is related to insufficient checking of parameters to the "OSMalloc" and "copyin" kernel API calls.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
obdev
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 2:27 AM
Reserved
Oct 14, 2016, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 15, 2016, 3:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:54 AM