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Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10474
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Release Date:
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2003-12-22
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Popularity:
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16,628 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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Security Bypass
Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Apple Macintosh OS X
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Apple has issued security updates for Mac OS X. These fix several vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to perform a variety of attacks.
The AppleFileServer contains an unspecified vulnerability when handling malformed requests.
An error in the handling of malformed ASN.1 sequences can be exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
A boundary error in "cd9660.util" can potentially be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.
For more information:
SA10440
Insecure default settings when handling DHCP packets can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA10295
An error in fetchmail when handling long lines can be exploited to cause a DoS.
For more information:
SA10025
An unspecified vulnerability in the tool "fs_usage" can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.
An integer overflow in rsync can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
For more information:
SA10353
A security issue in the Screen Saver can be exploited to perform some actions for a limited period of time on the desktop and applications when the login window is present.
During the system initialisation process, a malicious, local user can get a root shell by pressing the "Ctrl" and "C" keys on a USB keyboard for an extended period of time.
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