About the security content of OS X Mavericks v10.9.2 and Security Update 2014-001

This document describes the security content of OS X Mavericks v10.9.2 and Security Update 2014-001.

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OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 and Security Update 2014-001

  • Apache

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in Apache

    Description: Multiple vulnerabilities existed in Apache, the most serious of which may lead to cross-site scripting. These issues were addressed by updating Apache to version 2.2.26.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2013-1862

    CVE-2013-1896

  • App Sandbox

    Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5

    Impact: The App Sandbox may be bypassed

    Description: The LaunchServices interface for launching an application allowed sandboxed apps to specify the list of arguments passed to the new process. A compromised sandboxed application could abuse this to bypass the sandbox. This issue was addressed by preventing sandboxed applications from specifying arguments. This issue does not affect systems running OS X Mavericks 10.9 or later.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2013-5179 : Friedrich Graeter of The Soulmen GbR

  • ATS

    Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Viewing or downloading a document containing a maliciously crafted embedded font may lead to arbitrary code execution

    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the handling of handling of Type 1 fonts. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1254 : Felix Groebert of the Google Security Team

  • ATS

    Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: The App Sandbox may be bypassed

    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the handling of Mach messages passed to ATS. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1262 : Meder Kydyraliev of the Google Security Team

  • ATS

    Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: The App Sandbox may be bypassed

    Description: An arbitrary free issue existed in the handling of Mach messages passed to ATS. This issue was addressed through additional validation of Mach messages.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1255 : Meder Kydyraliev of the Google Security Team

  • ATS

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: The App Sandbox may be bypassed

    Description: A buffer overflow issue existed in the handling of Mach messages passed to ATS. This issue was addressed by additional bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1256 : Meder Kydyraliev of the Google Security Team

  • Certificate Trust Policy

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Root certificates have been updated

    Description: The set of system root certificates has been updated. The complete list of recognized system roots may be viewed via the Keychain Access application.

  • CFNetwork Cookies

    Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5

    Impact: Session cookies may persist even after resetting Safari

    Description: Resetting Safari did not always delete session cookies until Safari was closed. This issue was addressed through improved handling of session cookies. This issue does not affect systems running OS X Mavericks 10.9 or later.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1257 : Rob Ansaldo of Amherst College, Graham Bennett

  • CoreAnimation

    Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted site may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: A heap buffer overflow existed in CoreAnimation's handling of images. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1258 : Karl Smith of NCC Group

  • CoreText

    Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Applications that use CoreText may be vulnerable to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: A signedness issue existed in CoreText in the handling of Unicode fonts. This issue is addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1261 : Lucas Apa and Carlos Mario Penagos of IOActive Labs

  • curl

    Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may intercept user credentials or other sensitive information

    Description: When using curl to connect to an HTTPS URL containing an IP address, the IP address was not validated against the certificate. This issue does not affect systems prior to OS X Mavericks v10.9.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1263 : Roland Moriz of Moriz GmbH

  • Data Security

    Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may capture or modify data in sessions protected by SSL/TLS

    Description: Secure Transport failed to validate the authenticity of the connection. This issue was addressed by restoring missing validation steps.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1266

  • Date and Time

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: An unprivileged user may change the system clock

    Description: This update changes the behavior of the

    systemsetup

    command to require administrator privileges to change the system clock.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1265

  • File Bookmark

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Viewing a file with a maliciously crafted name may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: A buffer overflow existed in the handling of file names. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1259

  • Finder

    Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Accessing a file's ACL via Finder may lead to other users gaining unauthorized access to files

    Description: Accessing a file's ACL via Finder may corrupt the ACLs on the file. This issue was addressed through improved handling of ACLs.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1264

  • ImageIO

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted JPEG file may lead to the disclosure of memory contents

    Description: An uninitialized memory access issue existed in libjpeg's handling of JPEG markers, resulting in the disclosure of memory contents. This issue was addressed by better JPEG handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2013-6629 : Michal Zalewski

  • IOSerialFamily

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5

    Impact: Executing a malicious application may result in arbitrary code execution within the kernel

    Description: An out of bounds array access existed in the IOSerialFamily driver. This issue was addressed through additional bounds checking. This issue does not affect systems running OS X Mavericks v10.9 or later.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2013-5139 : @dent1zt

  • LaunchServices

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5

    Impact: A file could show the wrong extension

    Description: An issue existed in the handling of certain unicode characters that could allow filenames to show incorrect extensions. The issue was addressed by filtering unsafe unicode characters from display in filenames. This issue does not affect systems running OS X Mavericks v10.9 or later.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2013-5178 : Jesse Ruderman of Mozilla Corporation, Stephane Sudre of Intego

  • NVIDIA Drivers

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Executing a malicious application could result in arbitrary code execution within the graphics card

    Description: An issue existed that allowed writes to some trusted memory on the graphics card. This issue was addressed by removing the ability of the host to write to that memory.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2013-5986 : Marcin Kościelnicki from the X.Org Foundation Nouveau project

    CVE-2013-5987 : Marcin Kościelnicki from the X.Org Foundation Nouveau project

  • PHP

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in PHP

    Description: Multiple vulnerabilities existed in PHP, the most serious of which may have led to arbitrary code execution. These issues were addressed by updating PHP to version 5.4.24 on OS X Mavericks v10.9, and 5.3.28 on OS X Lion and Mountain Lion.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2013-4073

    CVE-2013-4113

    CVE-2013-4248

    CVE-2013-6420

  • QuickLook

    Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5

    Impact: Downloading a maliciously crafted Microsoft Office file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in QuickLook's handling of Microsoft Office files. Downloading a maliciously crafted Microsoft Office file may have led to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This issue does not affect systems running OS X Mavericks 10.9 or later.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1260 : Felix Groebert of the Google Security Team

  • QuickLook

    Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Downloading a maliciously crafted Microsoft Word document may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: A double free issue existed in QuickLook's handling of Microsoft Word documents. This issue was addressed through improved memory management.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1252 : Felix Groebert of the Google Security Team

  • QuickTime

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Playing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: A buffer overflow existed in the handling of 'ftab' atoms. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1246 : An anonymous researcher working with HP's Zero Day Initiative

  • QuickTime

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Playing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the handling of 'dref' atoms. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1247 : Tom Gallagher & Paul Bates working with HP's Zero Day Initiative

  • QuickTime

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Playing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: A buffer overflow existed in the handling of 'ldat' atoms. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1248 : Jason Kratzer working with iDefense VCP

  • QuickTime

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted PSD image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: A buffer overflow existed in the handling of PSD images. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1249 : dragonltx of Tencent Security Team

  • QuickTime

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Playing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: An out of bounds byte swapping issue existed in the handling of 'ttfo' elements. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1250 : Jason Kratzer working with iDefense VCP

  • QuickTime

    Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1

    Impact: Playing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: A signedness issue existed in the handling of 'stsz' atoms. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2014-1245 : Tom Gallagher & Paul Bates working with HP's Zero Day Initiative

  • Secure Transport

    Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5

    Impact: An attacker may be able to decrypt data protected by SSL

    Description: There were known attacks on the confidentiality of SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 when a cipher suite used a block cipher in CBC mode. To address these issues for applications using Secure Transport, the 1-byte fragment mitigation was enabled by default for this configuration.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3389 : Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong

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