__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Apple Security Update 2005-007 [Apple Security Update 2005-007] August 16, 2005 20:00 GMT Number P-276 [REVISED 18 Aug 2005] ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Apple released a security update that provides fixes for several security issues. PLATFORM: Mac OS X v. 10.3.9, Mac OS X Server v10.3.9 Mac OS X v.10.4.2, Mac OS X Server v10.4.2 DAMAGE: Various security issues were addressed. These issues have several impacts, including denial of service, local privilege escalation, buffer overflow, execution of arbitrary code, and remote system compromise. SOLUTION: Apply the security updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is HIGH if running Mac OS X Servers. The risk is ASSESSMENT: MEDIUM if not. Some servers are vulnerable to remote system compromise. Non-servers might open malicious files that could lead to arbitrary code execution. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-276.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302163 CVE/CAN: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CAN-2005-1344, CAN-2004-0942, CAN-2004-0885, CAN-2004-1083, CAN-2004-1084, CAN-2005-2501, CAN-2005-2502, CAN-2005-2503, CAN-2005-2504, CAN-2005-2505, CAN-2005-2506, CAN-2005-2525, CAN-2005-2526, CAN-2005-2507, CAN-2005-2519, CAN-2005-2513, CAN-2004-1189, CAN-2005-1174, CAN-2005-1175, CAN-2005-1689, CAN-2005-2511, CAN-2005-2509, CAN-2005-2512, CAN-2005-0709, CAN-2005-0710, CAN-2005-0711, CAN-2004-0079, CAN-2004-0112, CAN-2005-2514, CAN-2005-2515, CAN-2005-2516, CAN-2005-2517, CAN-2005-2520, CAN-2005-2518, CAN-2005-2510, CAN-2005-1769, CAN-2005-2095, CAN-2005-2521, CAN-2005-2522, CAN-2005-2523, CAN-2005-0605, CAN-2005-2096, CAN-2005-1849 ______________________________________________________________________________ REVISION HISTORY: 08/18/2005 - Security Update 2005-007 v1.1 replaces Security Update 2005-007 v1.0 for Tiger systems Mac OS X v10.4.2. v1.1 also provides a combined 32 and 64 bit version of LibSystem. [***** Start Apple Security Update 2005-007 *****] Visit Apple's Website directly for their published information: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302163 [***** End Apple Security Update 2005-007 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ 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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