Apple Mac OS X update for Java
Secunia Advisory: SA16808
Release Date: 2005-09-14
Popularity: 10,126 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Hijacking
Security Bypass
Manipulation of data
Privilege escalation
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Apple Macintosh OS X

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-2527
CVE-2005-2528
CVE-2005-2529
CVE-2005-2530
CVE-2005-2738


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Java for Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to manipulate certain data, disclose sensitive information and gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

1) An unspecified error in the handling of temporary files can be exploited in combination with a race condition to corrupt or create arbitrary files.

2) An error in the privileged helper where temporary files are insecurely created can be exploited to corrupt or create arbitrary files.

This does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X 10.4.

3) An unspecified error in the utility used for updating Java shared archives can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

This does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X 10.4.

4) An unspecified error in the use of Mac OS X specific extensions can be exploited by untrusted malicious applets to gain escalated privileges.

This does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X 10.4.

5) The problem is that a Java ServerSocket object can be created for a port which is in use. This can be exploited to intercept traffic sent to a Java application already listening on that port.

This does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X 10.4.

This update also fixes some issues in Java that aren't specific to Mac OS X.

Solution:
Mac OS X 10.3.9:
Apply the Java Security Update.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/javasecurityupdate.html

Mac OS X 10.4 or later:
Apply the Java 1.3.1 and 1.4.2 Release 2 update.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/java131and142release2.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
1, 4) Reported by vendor
2) kf_lists
3) Dino Dai Zovi
5) eremy Pfeifer, University of Saskatchewan

Original Advisory:
Apple:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302265
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302266


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