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

                             Mac OS X 10.4.1 Update
                           [APPLE Article ID 301630]

May 20, 2005 18:00 GMT                                            Number P-205
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PROBLEM:       Apple released several security related enhancements for Mac OS 
               X v10.4 and Mac OS X Server v10.4. 
PLATFORM:      Mac OS X v10.4 
               Mac OS X Server v10.4 
DAMAGE:        Various security issues were addressed. These issues have 
               several impacts, including denial of service, buffer overflow, 
               and execution of arbitrary code. 
SOLUTION:      Install the security patches. 
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VULNERABILITY  The risk is LOW. The most severe of these vulnerabilities 
ASSESSMENT:    require user authentication for system wide damage. 
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LINKS: 
 CIAC BULLETIN:      http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-205.shtml 
 ORIGINAL BULLETIN:  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301630 
 CVE/CAN:            http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= 
                     CAN-2005-1333 CAN-2005-1474 CAN-2005-1472 CAN-2005-0974 
                     CAN-2005-1473 
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Visit Apple's Website directly for their published information on their 
Security Update 19 May 2005:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798

[***** End APPLE Article ID 301630 *****]
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CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Apple for the 
information contained in this bulletin.
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