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OS X update for Kernel (CVE-2019-14899)

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OS X update for Kernel (CVE-2019-14899)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/11/2019
Created
07/17/2020
Added
07/16/2020
Modified
07/16/2020

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS, iOS, and Android that allows a malicious access point, or an adjacent user, to determine if a connected user is using a VPN, make positive inferences about the websites they are visiting, and determine the correct sequence and acknowledgement numbers in use, allowing the bad actor to inject data into the TCP stream. This provides everything that is needed for an attacker to hijack active connections inside the VPN tunnel.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-upgrade-10_15_6

References

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