Vulnerability discovered by Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos. Exploitation of this vulnerability requires user interaction, such as executing a malicious executable received via email or downloaded and run on the user’s Mac. The vulnerability can be triggered by sending specially crafted IOConnectCallMethod request to the Apple Intel HD3000 Graphics driver. Successful exploitation can result in an escalated privilege for the attacker, who can then use root-level access for further malicious activity. The disclosure of this and other vulnerabilities helps the entire online community by identifying security issues that otherwise could be exploited by threat actors.”]
Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2016/03/apple-gfx-vuln.html