Publish date
December 2016
Identifier
CVE-2016-7742
Manufacturer
Apple
Product
MacOS
Patched
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT207423
Authors
Gareth Evans
Description
An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. The issue involves the "xar" component, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted archive that triggers use of uninitialized memory locations.
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7742
