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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2018-4474

High
7.5/10

Summary

A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iCloud for Windows 7.7, watchOS 5, Safari 12, iOS 12, iTunes 12.9 for Windows, tvOS 12. Unexpected interaction causes an ASSERT failure.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published