CVE-2013-3955: Apple Ipad

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The get_xattrinfo function in the XNU kernel in Apple iOS 5.x and 6.x through 6.1.3 on iPad devices does not properly validate the header of an AppleDouble file, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or have unspecified other impact via an invalid file on an msdosfs filesystem.

Affected products

• Apple Ipad
• Apple IPAD2
• Apple Ipad Mini
• Apple iPhone OS: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; …

Published 2013-06-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.