Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by remote or local attackers to cause a denial of service, disclose sensitive information, bypass security restrictions or compromise an affected system. These issues are caused by implementation, data validation, and buffer overflow errors in Alias Manager, CoreTypes, c++filt, Dock, Launch Services, Net-SNMP, Ruby, SMB File Server, System Configuration, Tomcat, VPN, and WebKit, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security checks, gain knowledge of sensitive information, cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands or scripting code [...]
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1981
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2163
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Brian Mastenbrook, Andrew Cassell (Marine Spill Response Corporation), Alin Rad Pop (Secunia Research), Andrew Mortensen (University of Michigan) and James Urquhart.
ChangeLog
2008-07-01 : Initial release
Vulnerability Management
Subscribe to VUPEN Security VNS and receive real-time e-mail and SMS alerts when new vulnerabilities, exploits, or patches relevant to your systems and network configurations are available.
Feedback
If you have additional information or corrections for this security advisory please submit them via our contact form or by email to updates@vupen.com.
