High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 18, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-8717

Description

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15, tvOS 13. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

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Affected products

Apple Inc./macOS Catalinallm-fuzzy
Range: = 10.15
Apple Inc./tvOSllm-fuzzy2 versions
= 13+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: = 13
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
Apple Inc./macOSv5
Range: unspecified

Patches

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References

support.apple.com/HT210634nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com/kb/HT210722nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory

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