Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by remote or local attackers to cause a denial of service, disclose sensitive information, bypass security restrictions or compromise an affected system. These issues are caused by implementation, data validation, and buffer overflow errors in Alias Manager, CoreTypes, c++filt, Dock, Launch Services, Net-SNMP, Ruby, SMB File Server, System Configuration, Tomcat, VPN, and WebKit, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security checks, gain knowledge of sensitive information, cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands or scripting code.

Certain vulnerabilities are related to : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1787 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-1907 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-0787 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-1681 - VUPEN/ADV-2007-1729 - VUPEN/ADV-2007-2213 - VUPEN/ADV-2007-2902 - VUPEN/ADV-2007-2618 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-0488 - VUPEN/ADV-2007-3622

Affected Products

Mac OS X version 10.4.11
Mac OS X Server version 10.4.11
Mac OS X versions 10.5 through 10.5.3
Mac OS X Server versions 10.5 through 10.5.3

Solution

Apple Security Update 2008-004 (PPC) :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2008004ppc.html

Apple Security Update 2008-004 (Intel) :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2008004intel.html

Apple Security Update 2008-004 Server (PPC) :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2008004serverppc.html

Apple Security Update 2008-004 Server (Intel) :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2008004serverintel.html

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.4 Combo Update :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1054comboupdate.html

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1054update.html

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.4 :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxserver1054.html

Apple Mac OS X Server Combo 10.5.4 :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxservercombo1054.html

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1981
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2163

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Brian Mastenbrook, Andrew Cassell (Marine Spill Response Corporation), Alin Rad Pop (Secunia Research), Andrew Mortensen (University of Michigan) and James Urquhart.

ChangeLog

2008-07-01 : Initial release

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