CVE-2022-26764 (GCVE-0-2022-26764)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-05-26 19:20
Modified
2025-05-30 19:13
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • An attacker that has already achieved kernel code execution may be able to bypass kernel memory mitigations
Summary
A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in watchOS 8.6, tvOS 15.5, macOS Monterey 12.4, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5. An attacker that has already achieved kernel code execution may be able to bypass kernel memory mitigations.
References
Impacted products
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Apple watchOS Version: unspecified   < 8.6
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   Apple watchOS Version: unspecified   < 12.4
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