__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Apple Security Update 2005-001 for Mac OS X [2005-001] January 28, 2005 18:00 GMT Number P-116 [REVISED 07 Feb 2005] [REVISED 04 Aug 2005] [REVISED 22 Sep 2005] ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Apple released a security update that provides fixes for several security issues. PLATFORM: Mac OS X v. 10.3.7 Mac OS X Server v10.3.7 Mac OS X v.10.2.8 Mac OS X Server v10.2.8 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) 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: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. Multiple security updates from multiple ASSESSMENT: vendors. The most severe may lead to a local escalation of privileges at commands and remote attackers may execute arbitrary code at the permission of the logged in user. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-116.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300770 ADDITIONAL LINK: Debian Security Advisory DSA-669-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-669 Visit Hewlett Packard's Web Site for security bulletin: HPSBMA01212 / SSRT 5998 rev. 2 CVE/CAN: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CAN-2005-0125 CAN-2005-0126 CAN-2004-0989 CAN-2005-0127 CAN-2003-0860 CAN-2003-0863 CAN-2004-0594 CAN-2004-0595 CAN-2004-1018 CAN-2004-1019 CAN-2004-1020 CAN-2004-1063 CAN-2004-1064 CAN-2004-1065 CAN-2004-1314 CAN-2004-1036 ______________________________________________________________________________ REVISION HISTORY: 02/07/2005 - added a link to Debian Security Advisory DSA-669-1. 08/04/2005 - added a link to HP's Security Bulletin HPSBMA01212. 09/22/2005 - added a link to HP's Security Bulletin HPSBMA01212 rev.2. [***** Start 2005-001 *****] Visit Apple's Website directly for their published information: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300770 [***** End 2005-001 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ 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). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. CIAC is also a founding member of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, a global organization established to foster cooperation and coordination among computer security teams worldwide. 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