__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Apple Security Update [Security Update of 9/7/04] September 8, 2004 17:00 GMT Number O-212 [REVISED 14 Sep 2004] [REVISED 18 Oct 2004] [REVISED 06 Dec 2004] [REVISED 18 May 2005] [REVISED 02 Jun 2005] [REVISED 06 Jun 2005] [REVISED 08 Jun 2005] [REVISED 13 Jun 2005] [REVISED 23 Jun 2005] ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Apple released a security update that provides fixes for several security issues. PLATFORM: Mac OS X v10.2.x and v10.3.x Mac OS X Servers v10.2.x and v10.3.x Red Hat Desktop (v. 3, 4) Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1, v. 3, v. 4) Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1, v. 3, v. 4) Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 2.1, v. 3, v. 4) SGI ProPack 3 Service Pack 5 for SGI Altix family of systems DAMAGE: Various security issues were addressed. These issues have several impacts, including denial of service, local privilege escalation, buffer overflows allowing a remote attacker to execute code. SOLUTION: Apply the available security update. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. Multiple security updates from multiple ASSESSMENT: vendors. The most severe may lead to a local escalation of privileges. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-212.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: Apple Security Update 2004-12-02 (Also on CIAC P-049) http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798 ADDITIONAL LINKS: Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:106-04 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-106.html Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:074-10 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-074.html Red Hat Security Advisiory RHSA-2005:481-03 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-481.html Red Hat Security Advisiory RHSA-2005:165-03 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-165.html SGI Security Advisory Number 20050503-01-U ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20050503-01-U.asc Red Hat RHSA-2005:495-02 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-495.html SGI Advanced Linux Environment security update #39 Number: 20050602-01-U ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/ 20050602-01-U.asc CVE/CAN: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CAN-2002-1363, CAN-2004-0175, CAN-2004-0183, CAN-2004-0184, CAN-2004-0361, CAN-2004-0421, CAN-2004-0426, CAN-2004-0488, CAN-2004-0493, CAN-2004-0521, CAN-2004-0523, CAN-2004-0597, CAN-2004-0598, CAN-2004-0599, CAN-2004-0607, CAN-2004-0720, CAN-2004-0743, CAN-2004-0744 CAN-2004-0794, CAN-2004-0821, CAN-2004-0822, CAN-2004-0823, CAN-2004-0824, CAN-2004-0825 ______________________________________________________________________________ REVISION HISTORY: 09/14/2004 - note the updated Apple Security Update of 09-07-2004 revision 1.1. This revision pertains to an ftp security update for the lukemftpd package. 12/06/2004 - Added other Apple products to Platforms section. This information is also on our CIAC Bulletin P-049. 05/18/2005 - Added links to Red Hat Security Advisories RHSA-2005:106-04 and RHSA-2005:074-10. 06/02/2005 - Added link to Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:481-03 that provides updated openssl packages addressing the directory traversal vulnerability described in CAN-2004-0175. 06/06/2005 - CIAC has revised O-212 to add a link to SIG Advisory 20050503-01-U. 06/08/2005 - CIAC has revised O-212 adding a link to Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:165-03 to include Platform (v. 4). 06/13/2005 - revised to add a link to Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:495-02 to include Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, WS (v. 2.1) and Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor. 06/23/2005 - added link to SGI Advanced Linux Environment security update #39, Number: 20050602-01-U that provides patches for SGI ProPack 3 Service Pack 5 for SGI Altix family of systems. Visit Apple's Website directly for their published information: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798 _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Apple for the information contained in this bulletin. _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. CIAC is also a founding member of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, a global organization established to foster cooperation and coordination among computer security teams worldwide. CIAC services are available to DOE, DOE contractors, and the NIH. 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