About the security content of macOS Mojave 10.14
This document describes the security content of macOS Mojave 10.14.
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macOS Mojave 10.14
Bluetooth
Available for: iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013), iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2014), iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2015), Mac mini (Mid 2011), Mac mini Server (Mid 2011), Mac mini (Late 2012), Mac mini Server (Late 2012), Mac mini (Late 2014), Mac Pro (Late 2013), MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2011), MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011), MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012), MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012), MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2013), MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013), MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2015), MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012), MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012), MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013), MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) and MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to intercept Bluetooth traffic
Description: An input validation issue existed in Bluetooth. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-5383: Lior Neumann and Eli Biham
The updates below are available for these Mac models: MacBook (Early 2015 and later), MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later), MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later), Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later), iMac Pro (all models), Mac Pro (Late 2013, Mid 2010 and Mid 2012 models with recommended Metal-capable graphics processor, including MSI Gaming Radeon RX 560 and Sapphire Radeon PULSE RX 580)
afpserver
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to attack AFP servers through HTTP clients
Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4295: Jianjun Chen (@whucjj) from Tsinghua University and UC Berkeley
App Store
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine the Apple ID of the owner of the computer
Description: A permissions issue existed in the handling of the Apple ID. This issue was addressed with improved access controls.
CVE-2018-4324: Sergii Kryvoblotskyi of MacPaw Inc.
AppleGraphicsControl
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitisation.
CVE-2018-4417: Lee of the Information Security Lab Yonsei University working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Application Firewall
Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
Description: A configuration issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2018-4353: Abhinav Bansal of LinkedIn Inc.
APR
Impact: Multiple buffer overflow issues existed in Perl
Description: Multiple issues in Perl were addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2017-12613: Craig Young of Tripwire VERT
CVE-2017-12618: Craig Young of Tripwire VERT
ATS
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4411: lilang wu moony Li of Trend Micro working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
ATS
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2018-4308: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36)
Auto Unlock
Impact: A malicious application may be able to access local users’ Apple IDs
Description: A validation issue existed in the entitlement verification. This issue was addressed with improved validation of the process entitlement.
CVE-2018-4321: Min (Spark) Zheng, Xiaolong Bai of Alibaba Inc.
CFNetwork
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4126: Bruno Keith (@bkth_) working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
CoreFoundation
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4412: The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
CoreFoundation
Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4414: The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
CoreText
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted text file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2018-4347: Vasyl Tkachuk of Readdle
Crash Reporter
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitisation.
CVE-2018-4333: Brandon Azad
CUPS
Impact: In certain configurations, a remote attacker may be able to replace the message content from the print server with arbitrary content
Description: An injection issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2018-4153: Michael Hanselmann of hansmi.ch
CUPS
Impact: An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial-of-service attack
Description: A denial-of-service issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2018-4406: Michael Hanselmann of hansmi.ch
Dictionary
Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted dictionary file may lead to disclosure of user information
Description: A validation issue existed which allowed local file access. This was addressed with input sanitisation.
CVE-2018-4346: Wojciech Reguła (@_r3ggi) of SecuRing
DiskArbitration
Impact: A malicious application may be able to modify contents of the EFI system partition and execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges if secure boot is not enabled
Description: A permissions issue existed in DiskArbitration. This was addressed with additional ownership checks.
CVE-2018-4296: Vitaly Cheptsov
dyld
Impact: A malicious application may be able to modify protected parts of the file system
Description: A configuration issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2018-4433: Vitaly Cheptsov
fdesetup
Impact: Institutional recovery keys may be incorrectly reported as present
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2019-8643: Arun Sharma of VMWare
Firmware
Impact: An attacker with physical access to a device may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2017-5731: Intel and Eclypsium
CVE-2017-5732: Intel and Eclypsium
CVE-2017-5733: Intel and Eclypsium
CVE-2017-5734: Intel and Eclypsium
CVE-2017-5735: Intel and Eclypsium
Grand Central Dispatch
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4426: Brandon Azad
Heimdal
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4331: Brandon Azad
CVE-2018-4332: Brandon Azad
CVE-2018-4343: Brandon Azad
Hypervisor
Impact: Systems with microprocessors utilising speculative execution and address translations may allow unauthorised disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache to an attacker with local user access with guest OS privilege via a terminal page fault and a side-channel analysis
Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed by flushing the L1 data cache at the virtual machine entry.
CVE-2018-3646: Baris Kasikci, Daniel Genkin, Ofir Weisse, and Thomas F. Wenisch of University of Michigan, Mark Silberstein and Marina Minkin of Technion, Raoul Strackx, Jo Van Bulck, and Frank Piessens of KU Leuven, Rodrigo Branco, Henrique Kawakami, Ke Sun, and Kekai Hu of Intel Corporation, Yuval Yarom of The University of Adelaide
iBooks
Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted iBooks file may lead to disclosure of user information
Description: A configuration issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2018-4355: evi1m0 of bilibili security team
Intel Graphics Driver
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitisation.
CVE-2018-4396: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
CVE-2018-4418: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
Intel Graphics Driver
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A memory initialisation issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4351: Appology Team @ Theori working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Intel Graphics Driver
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4350: Yu Wang of Didi Research America
Intel Graphics Driver
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4334: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Intel Graphics Driver
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4451: Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos
CVE-2018-4456: Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos
IOHIDFamily
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4408: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
IOKit
Impact: A malicious application may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4341: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
CVE-2018-4354: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
IOKit
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2018-4383: Apple
IOUserEthernet
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4401: Apple
Kernel
Impact: A malicious application may be able to leak sensitive user information
Description: An access issue existed with privileged API calls. This issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2018-4399: Fabiano Anemone (@anoane)
Kernel
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to execute arbitrary code
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2018-4407: Kevin Backhouse of Semmle Ltd.
Kernel
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4336: Brandon Azad
CVE-2018-4337: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
CVE-2018-4340: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36)
CVE-2018-4344: The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
CVE-2018-4425: cc working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, Juwei Lin (@panicaII) of Trend Micro working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
LibreSSL
Impact: Multiple issues in libressl were addressed in this update
Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to libressl version 2.6.4.
CVE-2015-3194
CVE-2015-5333
CVE-2015-5334
CVE-2016-0702
Login Window
Impact: A local user may be able to cause a denial of service
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved logic.
CVE-2018-4348: Ken Gannon of MWR InfoSecurity and Christian Demko of MWR InfoSecurity
mDNSOffloadUserClient
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4326: an anonymous researcher working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
MediaRemote
Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2018-4310: CodeColorist of Ant-Financial LightYear Labs
Microcode
Impact: Systems with microprocessors utilising speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorised disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis
Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with a microcode update. This ensures that older data read from recently-written-to addresses cannot be read via a speculative side-channel.
CVE-2018-3639: Jann Horn (@tehjh) of Google Project Zero (GPZ), Ken Johnson of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)
Security
Impact: A local user may be able to cause a denial of service
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2018-4395: Patrick Wardle of Digita Security
Security
Impact: An attacker may be able to exploit weaknesses in the RC4 cryptographic algorithm
Description: This issue was addressed by removing RC4.
CVE-2016-1777: Pepi Zawodsky
Spotlight
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4393: Lufeng Li
Symptom Framework
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2018-4203: Bruno Keith (@bkth_) working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Text
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted text file may lead to a denial of service
Description: A denial-of-service issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2018-4304: jianan.huang (@Sevck)
Wi-Fi
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitisation.
CVE-2018-4338: Lee @ SECLAB, Yonsei University working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Additional recognition
Accessibility Framework
We would like to acknowledge Ryan Govostes for their assistance.
Core Data
We would like to acknowledge Andreas Kurtz (@aykay) of NESO Security Labs GmbH for their assistance.
CoreDAV
We would like to acknowledge Matthew Thomas of Verisign for their assistance.
CoreGraphics
We would like to acknowledge Nitin Arya of Roblox Corporation for their assistance.
CoreSymbolication
We would like to acknowledge Brandon Azad for their assistance.
CUPS
We would like to acknowledge Michael Hanselmann of hansmi.ch for their assistance.
IOUSBHostFamily
We would like to acknowledge Dragos Ruiu of CanSecWest for their assistance.
Kernel
We would like to acknowledge Brandon Azad for their assistance.
We would like to acknowledge Alessandro Avagliano of Rocket Internet SE, John Whitehead of The New York Times, Kelvin Delbarre of Omicron Software Systems and Zbyszek Żółkiewski for their assistance.
Quick Look
We would like to acknowledge lokihardt of Google Project Zero, Wojciech Reguła (@_r3ggi) of SecuRing and Patrick Wardle of Digita Security for their assistance.
Security
We would like to acknowledge Christoph Sinai, Daniel Dudek (@dannysapples) of The Irish Times and Filip Klubička (@lemoncloak) of ADAPT Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology, Horatiu Graur of SoftVision, Istvan Csanady of Shapr3D, Omar Barkawi of ITG Software, Inc., Phil Caleno, Wilson Ding, an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
SQLite
We would like to acknowledge Andreas Kurtz (@aykay) of NESO Security Labs GmbH for their assistance.
Terminal
We would like to acknowledge Federico Bento for their assistance.
Time Machine
We would like to acknowledge Matthew Thomas of Verisign for their assistance.
WindowServer
We would like to acknowledge Patrick Wardle of Digita Security for their assistance.
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