CVE-2018-4344 on CISA KEV

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue affected versions prior to iOS 12, macOS Mojave 10.14, tvOS 12, watchOS 5.

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue affected versions prior to iOS 12, macOS Mojave 10.14, tvOS 12, watchOS 5.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/kb/HT209107
• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/kb/HT209106
• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/kb/HT209139
• support.apple.com — https://support.apple.com/kb/HT209108

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS	Versions prior to: iOS 12, macOS Mojave 10.14, tvOS 12, watchOS 5

06Detection

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