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CVE-2015-5883

The bidirectional text-display and text-selection implementations in Terminal in Apple OS X before 10.11 interpret directional override formatting characters d…

Impact

The bidirectional text-display and text-selection implementations in Terminal in Apple OS X before 10.11 interpret directional override formatting characters differently, which allows remote attackers to spoof the content of a text document via a crafted character sequence.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
AppleMac Os X
through 10.10.5

Weakness classification

References