Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by remote or local attackers to disclose sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. These issues are caused by infinite loop, signedness errors, buffer overflow, integer overflow, memory corruption, input validation, and authentication errors in ATS, BOM, CoreGraphics, CoreTypes, Flash Player Plug-in, Kernel, Libsystem, Managed Client, network_cmds, Podcast Producer, and UDF.
For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2838 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-3155 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-3189
Affected Products
Mac OS X version 10.4.11
Mac OS X Server version 10.4.11
Mac OS X version 10.5 through 10.5.5
Mac OS X Server version 10.5 through 10.5.5
Solution
Apply Apple Security Update 2008-008 or upgrade to Mac OS X version 10.5.6 :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3444
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by the vendor, Michael Samarin and Mikko Vihonen (Futurice Ltd), Alexander Clauss (iCab.de), Richard Vaneeden (IOActive), Ben Loer (Princeton University), John Barnes (ESRI), and Trevor Lalish-Menagh (Tamman Technologies), Alex Rosenberg (Ohmantics), and Mauro Notarianni (PCAX Solutions).
ChangeLog
2008-12-16 : Initial release
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