CVE-2011-0162

high

Published 2011-03-11 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Wi-Fi in Apple iOS before 4.3 and Apple TV before 4.2 does not properly perform bounds checking for Wi-Fi frames, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reset) via unspecified traffic on the local wireless network.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

macOS Affected 31 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
4.1	Affected	—
4.0.2	Affected	—
4.0.1	Affected	—
4.0	Affected	—
3.2.2	Affected	—
3.2.1	Affected	—
3.2	Affected	—
3.1.3	Affected	—
3.1.2	Affected	—
3.1	Affected	—
3.0.1	Affected	—
3.0	Affected	—
2.2.1	Affected	—
2.2	Affected	—
2.1.1	Affected	—
2.1.0	Affected	—
2.1	Affected	—
2.0.2	Affected	—
2.0.1	Affected	—
2.0.0	Affected	—
2.0	Affected	—
1.1.5	Affected	—
1.1.4	Affected	—
1.1.3	Affected	—
1.1.2	Affected	—
1.1.1	Affected	—
1.1.0	Affected	—
1.0.2	Affected	—
1.0.1	Affected	—
1.0.0	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
apple	apple_tv	`4.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.