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Mac OS X Java Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA28115  
Release Date: 2007-12-17

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Apple Macintosh OS X


CVE reference:CVE-2006-4339 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-6731 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-6736 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-6745 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-0243 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-2435 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-2788 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-2789 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-3004 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-3005 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-3503 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-3504 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-3655 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-3698 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-3922 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-4381 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-5232 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-5862 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported and acknowledged in Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or to compromise a user's system.

1) An error in Java due to an improper access check can be exploited via a specially crafted Java applet to add or remove items from a user's Keychain, without prompting the user.

This vulnerability affects Mac OS X versions prior to 10.5.

2) Some vulnerabilities in Java 1.4 and J2SE 5.0 can be exploited to bypass certain security restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or to compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA21709
SA23398
SA23445
SA23757
SA25069
SA25295
SA25769
SA25823
SA25981
SA26015
SA26402
SA27009

These vulnerabilities are reported in Mac OS X 10.4.10 and Mac OS X Server 10.4.10. Mac OS X v10.5 is reportedly not affected.

Solution:
Update to Java Release 6 for Mac OS X 10.4.

Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 6:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/javaformacosx104release6.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) The vendor credits Bruno Harbulot, University of Manchester.

Original Advisory:
Apple:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177

Other References:
SA21709:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21709/

SA23398:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23398/

SA23445:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23445/

SA23757:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23757/

SA25069:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25069/

SA25295:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25295/

SA25769:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25769/

SA25823:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25823/

SA25981:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25981/

SA26015:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26015/

SA26402:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26402/

SA27009:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27009/



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.

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