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 out-of-bounds memory access issues, input validation errors, buffer overflows, uninitialized memory access issues, integer overflows, uninitialized pointers, implementation issues, format string errors, and logic and synchronization issues in bzip2, CFNetwork, ColorSync, CoreTypes, Dock, Image RAW, ImageIO, Kernel, launchd, Login Window, MobileMe, Networking, and XQuery.
Affected Products
Mac OS X version 10.4.11 and prior
Mac OS X Server version 10.4.11 and prior
Mac OS X versions 10.5 through 10.5.7
Mac OS X Server versions 10.5 through 10.5.7
Solution
Apply Apple Security Update 2009-003 :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Kevin Day (Your.Org), Jason Mueller (Indiana University), Chris Evans (Google Security Team), Brian Mastenbrook, Clint Ruoho (Laconic Security), Chris Ries (Carnegie Mellon University Computing Services), Lurene Grenier (Sourcefire VRT), Tavis Ormandy (Google Security Team), Razvan Musaloiu-E. (Johns Hopkins University, HiNRG), Alfredo Pesoli (0xcafebabe.it), Ilja van Sprundel (IOActive), Bennet Yee (Google Inc.), and the vendor.
ChangeLog
2009-08-06 : Initial release
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