VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-4497

critical
Published 2015-01-30 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Integer signedness error in IOBluetoothFamily in the Bluetooth implementation in Apple OS X before 10.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (write to kernel memory) via a crafted app.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://support.apple.com/HT204244

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.