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Security Update 2004-09-07 This Security Update is available for the following system versions: - Mac OS X 10.3.4 - Mac OS X 10.3.5 - Mac OS X Server 10.3.4 - Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 - Mac OS X 10.2.8 - Mac OS X Server 10.2.8 Tip: For more information about CVE-IDs referenced below, see (http://www.cve.mitre.org/).

• Component: Apache 2 CVE-IDs: CAN-2004-0493, CAN-2004-0488 Available for: Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 Impact: Exposure to a potential Denial of Service. Description: The Apache Organization has released Apache version 2.0.50. This release fixes a number of denial of service vulnerabilities. We have updated Apache to version 2.0.50 which only ships with Mac OS X Server, and is off by default.
• Component: CoreFoundation CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0821 Available for: Mac OS X 10.2.8, Mac OS X 10.3.4, Mac OS X 10.3.5, Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 Impact: Privileged programs using CoreFoundation can be made to load a user supplied library. Description: Bundles using the CoreFoundation CFPlugIn facilities can include directions to automatically load plugin executables. With a specially crafted bundle this could also occur for privileged programs, permitting a local privilege escalation. CoreFoundation now prevents automatic executable loading for bundles that already have a loaded executable. Credit to Kikuchi Masashi for reporting this issue.
• Component: CoreFoundation CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0822 Available for: Mac OS X 10.2.8, Mac OS X 10.3.4, Mac OS X 10.3.5, Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 Impact: An environment variable can be manipulated to cause a buffer overflow which can result in a privilege escalation Description: By manipulating local environment variables a program could potentially be leveraged by a local attacker to execute arbitrary code. This can only be exploited with access to a local account. Validity checks for local environment variables are now provided. Credit to for reporting this issue.
• Component: IPSec CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0607 Available for: Mac OS X 10.2.8, Mac OS X 10.3.4, Mac OS X 10.3.5, Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 Impact: When using certificates, unauthenticated hosts may be able to negotiate an IPSec connection. Description: When configured to use X.509 certificates to authenticate remote hosts, a certificate verification failure does not abort the key exchange. Mac OS X does not use certificates for IPSec by default so this issue only affects configurations that have been manually configured. IPSec now verifies and aborts a key exchange if a certificate verification failure occurs.
• Component: Kerberos CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0523 Available for: Mac OS X 10.2.8, Mac OS X 10.3.4, Mac OS X 10.3.5, Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 Impact: Multiple buffer overflows in krb5_aname_to_localname for MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.3.3 and earlier could permit remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Description: The buffer overflow can only be exploited if "auth_to_local_names" or "auth_to_local" support is also configured in the edu.mit.Kerberos file. Apple does not enable this by default. The security fix was back ported and applied to the Mac OS X versions of Kerberos. The Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server version of Kerberos is not susceptible to the recent "double-free" issue reported in the CERT vulnerability note VU#350792 (CAN-2004-0772). Credit to the MIT Kerberos Development Team for informing us of this issue.
• Component: lukemftpd CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0794 Available for: Mac OS X 10.2.8, Mac OS X 10.3.4, Mac OS X 10.3.5, Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 Impact: A race condition that can permit an authenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code Description: If the FTP service has been enabled, and a remote attacker can correctly authenticate, then a race condition would permit them to stop the FTP service or execute arbitary code. The fix is to replace the lukemftpd FTP service with tnftpd. lukemftp is installed but not activated in Mac OS X Server, which instead uses xftp. Credit to Luke Mewburn of the NetBSD Foundation for informing us of this issue.
• Component: OpenLDAP CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0823 Available for: Mac OS X 10.3.4, Mac OS X 10.3.5, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 Impact: A crypt password can be used as if it were a plain text password. Description: Backwards compatibility with older LDAP implementations permits the storing of a crypt password in the userPassword attribute. Some authentication validation schemes can use this value as if it were a plain text password. The fix removes the ambiguity and always uses this type of field as a crypt password. This issue does not occur in Mac OS X 10.2.8. Credit to Steve Revilak of Kayak Software Corporation for reporting this issue.
• Component: OpenSSH CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0175 Available for: Mac OS X 10.2.8, Mac OS X 10.3.4, Mac OS X 10.3.5, Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 Impact: A malicious ssh/scp server can overwrite local files Description: A directory traversal vulnerability in the scp program permits a malicious remote server to overwrite local files. The security fix was backported and applied to the Mac OS X versions of OpenSSH.
• Component: PPPDialer CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0824 Available for: Mac OS X 10.2.8, Mac OS X 10.3.4, Mac OS X 10.3.5, Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 Impact: A malicious user can overwrite system files resulting in a local privilege escalation Description: PPP components performed insecure accesses of a file stored in a world-writeable location. The fix moves the log files to a non-world-writeable location.
• Component: QuickTime Streaming Server Available for: Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0825 Impact: A denial of service requiring a restart of the QuickTime Streaming Server Description: A particular sequence of client operations can cause a deadlock on the QuickTime Streaming Server. The fix updates the code to eliminate this deadlock condition.
• Component: rsync CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0426 Available for: Mac OS X 10.2.8, Mac OS X 10.3.4, Mac OS X 10.3.5, Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 Impact: When rsync is run in daemon mode a remote attacker can write outside of the module path unless the chroot option has been set. Description: rsync before version 2.6.1 does not properly sanitize paths when running a read/write daemon with the chroot option turned off. The fix updates rsync to version 2.6.2.
• Component: Safari CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0361 Available for: Mac OS X 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.2.8 Impact: A JavaScript array of negative size can cause Safari to access out of bounds memory resulting in an application crash. Description: Storing objects into a JavaScript array allocated with negative size can overwrite memory. Safari now stops processing JavaScript programs if an array allocation fails. This security enhancement was previously made available in Safari 1.0.3, and is being applied inside the Mac OS X 10.2.8 operating system as an extra layer of protection for customers who have not installed that version of Safari. This is a specific fix for Mac OS X 10.2.8 and the issue does not exist in Mac OS X 10.3 or later systems.
• Component: Safari CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0720 Available for: Mac OS X 10.2.8, Mac OS X 10.3.4, Mac OS X 10.3.5, Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 Impact: An untrusted web site can inject content into a frame intended to be used by another domain. Description: A web site that uses multiple frames can have some of its frames replaced with content from a malicious site if the malicious site is visited first. The fix imposes a set of parent/child rules preventing the attack.
• Component: SquirrelMail CVE-ID: CAN-2004-0521 Available for: Mac OS X 10.2.8, Mac OS X 10.3.4, Mac OS X 10.3.5, Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 Impact: SquirrelMail before 1.4.3 RC1 allows remote attackers to execute unauthorized SQL statements Description: SquirrelMail before 1.4.3 RC1 is vulnerable to SQL injection which permits unauthorized SQL statements to be run. The fix updates SquirrelMail to version 1.4.3a
• Component: tcpdump CVE-IDs: CAN-2004-0183, CAN-2004-0184 Available for: Mac OS X 10.2.8, Mac OS X 10.3.4, Mac OS X 10.3.5, Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, Mac OS X Server 10.3.4, Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 Impact: Maliciously crafted packets can cause a crash of a running tcpdump Description: The detailed printing functions for ISAKMP packets do not perform correct bounds checking and cause an out-of-bounds read which results in a crash. The fix updates tcpdump to version 3.8.3.