VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8661

high
Published 2016-11-15 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.4

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
80%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
obdevlittle_snitch3.0
obdevlittle_snitch3.0.1
obdevlittle_snitch3.0.2
obdevlittle_snitch3.0.3
obdevlittle_snitch3.0.4
obdevlittle_snitch3.1
obdevlittle_snitch3.1.1
obdevlittle_snitch3.3
obdevlittle_snitch3.3.1
obdevlittle_snitch3.3.2
obdevlittle_snitch3.3.3
obdevlittle_snitch3.3.4
obdevlittle_snitch3.4
obdevlittle_snitch3.4.1
obdevlittle_snitch3.4.2
obdevlittle_snitch3.5
obdevlittle_snitch3.5.1
obdevlittle_snitch3.5.2
obdevlittle_snitch3.5.3
obdevlittle_snitch3.6
obdevlittle_snitch3.6.1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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