Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by remote or local attackers to disclose sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. These issues are caused by buffer overflow, insecure file, null pointer dereference, uninitialized memory access, memory corruption, race condition, integer overflow, input validation and design errors in ATS, BIND, ClamAV, Directory Services, Finder, ImageIO, Kernel, libresolv, Login Window, OpenSSH, QuickDraw Manager, Ruby, SearchKit, System Configuration, System Preferences, Time Machine, VideoConference and Wiki Server.
For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0994 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-1035 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-1218 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-1225 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-1227 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-1855 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-1992 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-2023
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Chris Ries (Carnegie Mellon University Computing Services), IT Department (West Seneca Central School District), Michel Colman, Yuxuan Wang (Sogou), Robert Swiecki (Google Security Team), Nevin Liber, Thomas Pelaia (Oak Ridge National Lab), Thomas Tempelmann, Ram Kolli, Dan Kaminsky (IOActive), Christopher A. Grande (Middlesex Community College), iDefense Labs, Hernan Ochoa (Core Security Technologies), Tore Halset (pvv.org), Matt Johnston (University Computer Club), Michal Fresel (hi competence e.U.), Edwin McKenzie, Leon von Tippelskirch, and Matthias Wieczorek (Chair for Applied Software Engineering / TU Munich).
ChangeLog
2008-09-16 : Initial release
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