CVE-2014-8611: Apple iPhone OS

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The __sflush function in fflush.c in stdio in libc in FreeBSD 10.1 and the kernel in Apple iOS before 9 mishandles failures of the write system call, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via a crafted application.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: up to and including 8.4.1
• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.5
• Freebsd Freebsd: version 10.1 only

Published 2015-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.