__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Apple Security Update 2004-12-02 December 3, 2004 22:00 GMT Number P-049 [REVISED 12 Apr 2005] [REVISED 15 Aug 2006] ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Apple has released fixes for multiple vulnerabilities. Among them are issues with: - replay problem in mod_digest_apple - mod_ssl vulnerabilities - default Apache configurations - Apple HFS+ filesystem permits multiple data streams - Modified Apache 2 configurations - Appkit flaws - Cyrus IMAP - HIToolbox - Kerberos authentication - Postfix authentication - PSNormalizer - QuickTime Streaming Server - Safari - Terminal.app 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) Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, WS (v. 2.1 & v. 3) Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor DAMAGE: Varies widely due to the quantity of fixes on this security update. SOLUTION: View Apple's suggestions for each vulnerability and apply appropriate security updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is LOW. These lean more towards being "bug" fixes ASSESSMENT: for Apache as well as other system components. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-049.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: (Security Update 2004-12-02) http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798 ADDITIONAL LINK: Red Hat RHSA-2005:021-09 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-021.html Sun Alert ID: 102197 http://www.sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1 -26-102197-1&searchclause=%22category:security%22%2420%22 availability,%2420security%22%2420category:security CVE/CAN: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CAN-2003-0020 CAN-2003-0987 CAN-2004-0174 CAN-2004-0488 CAN-2004-0492 CAN-2004-0642 CAN-2004-0643 CAN-2004-0644 CAN-2004-0747 CAN-2004-0748 CAN-2004-0751 CAN-2004-0772 CAN-2004-0786 CAN-2004-0803 CAN-2004-0804 CAN-2004-0885 CAN-2004-0886 CAN-2004-0940 CAN-2004-1081 CAN-2004-1082 CAN-2004-1083 CAN-2004-1084 CAN-2004-1085 CAN-2004-1086 CAN-2004-1087 CAN-2004-1088 CAN-2004-1089 CAN-2004-1121 CAN-2004-1122 CAN-2004-1123 ______________________________________________________________________________ REVISION HISTORY: 04/12/2005 - revised to add a link to Red Hat RHSA-2005:021-09 08/15/2006 - Sun Alert ID: 102197 updated its Contributing Factors and Resolution sections and changed its "State" to resolved Visit Apple's Website directly for their published information on their Security Update 2004-12-02: 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). 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