CVE-2015-5883

Medium

Description

The bidirectional text-display and text-selection implementations in Terminal in Apple OS X before 10.11 interpret directional override formatting characters differently, which allows remote attackers to spoof the content of a text document via a crafted character sequence.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductApple Mac Os X
PublishedOct 9, 2015
First seenOct 9, 2015

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
apple mac_os_xv ≤ 10.10.5—

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