CVE-2016-7609

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Published 2017-02-20 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.9
VIR risk
6.2

Description

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. The issue involves the "AppleGraphicsPowerManagement" component. It allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
62%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected

References

CWEs

CWE-476

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