__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Apple Mac OS X v10.3.9 Security Update [APPLE-SA-2005-04-15 Mac OS X v10.3.9] April 18, 2005 17:00 GMT Number P-185 [REVISED 07 Jul 2005] ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Apple released update v10.3.9 for Mac OS X platforms and this includes several security related enhancements. PLATFORM: Mac OS X versions prior to 10.3.9 DAMAGE: Vulnerabilities are listed as follows: CAN-2005-0969 – An input validation vulnerability may lead to heap overflow or kernel panic. CAN-2005-0970 – Capability to run SUID/SGID scripts may lead to privilege escalation. CAN-2005-0971 – Incorrect handling of system call arguments may lead to local privilege escalation. CAN-2005-0972 – The searchfs() system call contains a vulnerability that may lead to a integer overflow and allow an unprivileged local user to execute code with elevated privileges. CAN-2005-0973 – A vulnerability in the handling of values passed to setsockopt() may allow unprivileged local users to cause a denial of service. CAN-2005-0974 – An input validation vulnerability in nfs_mount() may allow an unprivileged local users to cause a denial of service. CAN-2005-0975 – A parsing vulnerability may allow unprivileged local users to cause a temporary denial of service. CAN-2005-0976 – A vulnerability in Safari may cause html and javascript to run in the local domain. SOLUTION: Apply security update. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. The most severe of these vulnerabilities ASSESSMENT: may cause local privilege escalation. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-185.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301327 ADDITIONAL LINK: US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#998369 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/998369 CVE/CAN: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CAN-2005-0969, CAN-2005-0970, CAN-2005-0971, CAN-2005-0972, CAN-2005-0973, CAN-2005-0974, CAN-2005-0975, CAN-2005-0976 ______________________________________________________________________________ REVISION HISTORY: 07/07/2005 - revised to add a link to US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#998369. Visit Apple's Website directly for their published information on their Security Update APPLE-SA-2005-04-15: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301327 _______________________________________________________________________________ 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. 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