CVE-2013-5142: Apple iPhone OS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The kernel in Apple iOS before 7 does not initialize unspecified kernel data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via the (1) msgctl API or (2) segctl API.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: up to and including 6.1.4; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.1.1 only; …

Published 2013-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.