About the security content of Apple TV 5.2

This document describes the security content of Apple TV 5.2.

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Apple TV 5.2

• Apple TV

  Available for: Apple TV 2nd generation and later

  Impact: A user-mode process may be able to access the first page of kernel memory

  Description: The kernel has checks to validate that the user-mode pointer and length passed to the copyin and copyout functions would not result in a user-mode process being able to directly access kernel memory. The checks were not being used if the length was smaller than one page. This issue was addressed through additional validation of the arguments to copyin and copyout.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2013-0964 : Mark Dowd of Azimuth Security

• Apple TV

  Available for: Apple TV 2nd generation

  Impact: A remote attacker on the same Wi-Fi network may be able to cause an unexpected system termination

  Description: An out of bounds read issue exists in Broadcom's BCM4325 and BCM4329 firmware's handling of 802.11i information elements. This issue was addressed through additional validation of 802.11i information elements.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2012-2619 : Andres Blanco and Matias Eissler of Core Security