__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Apple Security Update 2005-005 [APPLE Article ID 301528] May 4, 2005 17:00 GMT Number P-200 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Apple released software updates for Mac OS X v10.3.9 and Max OS X Server v10.3.9 to address several security vulnerabilities. PLATFORM: Mac OS X v10.3.9 Mac OS X Server v10.3.9 DAMAGE: Various security issues were addressed. These issues have several impacts, including denial of service, local privilege escalation, buffer overflow, and execution of arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Install the security patches. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. The most severe of these vulnerabilities ASSESSMENT: could be used by local users to overwrite files and lead to privilege escalation. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-200.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301528 CVE/CAN: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CAN-2005-1344 CAN-2004-1308 CAN-2004-1307 CAN-2005-1330 CAN-2005-1331 CAN-2005-1332 CAN-2005-1333 CAN-2005-1335 CAN-2005-0342 CAN-2005-1336 CAN-2005-1337 CAN-2005-1338 CAN-2004-0687 CAN-2004-0688 CAN-2005-1339 CAN-2005-0594 CAN-2005-1340 CAN-2004-1051 CAN-2005-1341 CAN-2005-1342 CAN-2005-1343 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start APPLE Article ID 301528 *****] Visit Apple's Website directly for their published information on their Security Update 03 May 2005: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798 [***** End APPLE Article ID 301528 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ 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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