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CVE-2017-7982 (GCVE-0-2017-7982)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-20 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:19
VLAI
Summary
Integer overflow in the plist_from_bin function in bplist.c in libimobiledevice/libplist before 2017-04-19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted plist file.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2017-04-20 00:00
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