Netiquette IQ Securty update - Apple Releases Security Updates for Mac OS X and iOS

From time to time I post security updates as this really is a part of Netiquette. Here are the latest from Apple.

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As posted today on US-CERT:

From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6207

§  CFNetwork HTTPProtocol

Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, and OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position can obtain web site credentials

Description: Set-Cookie HTTP headers would be processed even if the connection closed before the header line was complete. An attacker could strip security settings from the cookie by forcing the connection to close before the security settings were sent, and then obtain the value of the unprotected cookie. This issue was addressed by ignoring incomplete HTTP header lines.

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-1296 : Antoine Delignat-Lavaud of Prosecco at Inria Paris

§  CoreServicesUIAgent

Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website or URL may result in an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: A format string issue existed in the handling of URLs. This issue was addressed through additional validation of URLs. This issue does not affect systems prior to OS X Mavericks.

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-1315 : Lukasz Pilorz of runic.pl, Erik Kooistra

§  FontParser

Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5

Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PDF file may result in an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: A buffer underflow existed in the handling of fonts in PDF files. This issue was addressed through additional bounds checking. This issue does not affect OS X Mavericks systems.

CVE-ID

CVE-2013-5170 : Will Dormann of CERT/CC

§  Heimdal Kerberos

Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service

Description: A reachable abort existed in the handling of ASN.1 data. This issue was addressed through additional validation of ASN.1 data.

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-1316 : Joonas Kuorilehto of Codenomicon

§  ImageIO

Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted JPEG image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: A buffer overflow issue existed in ImageIO's handling of JPEG images. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking. This issue does not affect systems prior to OS X Mavericks.

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-1319 : Cristian Draghici of Modulo Consulting, Karl Smith of NCC Group

§  Intel Graphics Driver

Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5 and OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Impact: A malicious application can take control of the system

Description: A validation issue existed in the handling of a pointer from userspace. This issue was addressed through additional validation of pointers.

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-1318 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero working with HP's Zero Day Initiative

§  IOKit Kernel

Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Impact: A local user can read kernel pointers, which can be used to bypass kernel address space layout randomization

Description: A set of kernel pointers stored in an IOKit object could be retrieved from userland. This issue was addressed through removing the pointers from the object.

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-1320 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero working with HP's Zero Day Initiative

§  Kernel

Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Impact: A local user can read a kernel pointer, which can be used to bypass kernel address space layout randomization

Description: A kernel pointer stored in a XNU object could be retrieved from userland. This issue was addressed through removing the pointer from the object.

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-1322 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

§  Power Management

Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Impact: The screen might not lock

Description: If a key was pressed or the trackpad touched just after the lid was closed, the system might have tried to wake up while going to sleep, which would have caused the screen to be unlocked. This issue was addressed by ignoring keypresses while going to sleep. This issue does not affect systems prior to OS X Mavericks.

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-1321 : Paul Kleeberg of Stratis Health Bloomington MN, Julian Sincu at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW Stuttgart), Gerben Wierda of R&A, Daniel Luz

§  Ruby

Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Impact: Running a Ruby script that handles untrusted YAML tags may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: An integer overflow issue existed in LibYAML's handling of YAML tags. This issue was addressed through additional validation of YAML tags. This issue does not affect systems prior to OS X Mavericks.

CVE-ID

CVE-2013-6393

§  Ruby

Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, and OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Impact: Running a Ruby script that uses untrusted input to create a Float object may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: A heap-based buffer overflow issue existed in Ruby when converting a string to a floating point value. This issue was addressed through additional validation of floating point values.

CVE-ID

CVE-2013-4164

§  Security - Secure Transport

Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5 and OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may capture data or change the operations performed in sessions protected by SSL

Description: In a 'triple handshake' attack, it was possible for an attacker to establish two connections which had the same encryption keys and handshake, insert the attacker's data in one connection, and renegotiate so that the connections may be forwarded to each other. To prevent attacks based on this scenario, Secure Transport was changed so that, by default, a renegotiation must present the same server certificate as was presented in the original connection. This issue does not affect Mac OS X 10.7 systems and earlier.

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-1295 : Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Alfredo Pironti of Prosecco at Inria Paris

§  WindowServer

Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5 and OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Impact: Maliciously crafted applications can execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox

Description: WindowServer sessions could be created by sandboxed applications. This issue was addressed by disallowing sandboxed applications from creating WindowServer sessions.

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-1314 : KeenTeam working with HP's Zero Day Initiative
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