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                       The U.S. Department of Energy
                   Computer Incident Advisory Capability
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                             INFORMATION BULLETIN

                             Apple Security Update
              [Security update of 9/29/04 (released 2004-10-04)]

October 5, 2004 00:00 GMT                                         Number P-002
[REVISED 27 Oct 2004]
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PROBLEM:       Apple released a security update that provides fixes for 
               several security issues. 
PLATFORM:      Mac OS X 10.3.4 
               Mac OS X 10.3.5 
               Mac OS X Server 10.3.4 
               Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 
               Mac OS X 10.2.8 
               Mac OS X Server 10.2.8 
               Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98
DAMAGE:        Various security issues were addressed. These issues have 
               several impacts, including denial of service, local privilege 
               escalation, and a buffer overflow allowing a remote attacker to 
               execute code. 
SOLUTION:      Apply the available security update. 
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VULNERABILITY  The risk is LOW. The most severe of the vulnerabilities may 
ASSESSMENT:    allow an attacker to craft a BMP image that could overwrite 
               heap memory and allow the execution of arbitrary code hidden in 
               an image. 
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LINKS: 
 CIAC BULLETIN:      http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-002.shtml 
 ORIGINAL BULLETIN:  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798 
 CVE/CAN:            http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0921, 
                     CAN-2004-0922, CAN-2004-0558, CAN-2004-0923, CAN-2004-0924, 
                     CAN-2004-0925, CAN-2004-0926 
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REVISION HISTORY:
10/27/2004 - added Windows platforms related to CAN-2004-0926.  Please see
             Apple Update for QuickTime 6.5.2, available at the link below.

Visit Apple's Website directly for their published information:
 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798

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CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Red Hat for the 
information contained in this bulletin.
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