Vulnerability Spotlight: Apple Remote Code Execution With Image Files

Vulnerabilities discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos.

Many of the wide variety of file formats are designed for specialized uses within specific industries. Apple offers APIs as interfaces to provide a definitive way to access image data for multiple image formats on the Apple OS X platform. Talos is disclosing the presence of five remote code execution vulnerabilities in Apple OS X related to processing image formats: TALOS-2016-0171, TALOS-2016-0180,TALOS-2016-0181, TALOS-2016-0183, TALOS-2016-186.