About the security content of Safari 8.0.5, Safari 7.1.5, and Safari 6.2.5

This document describes the security content of Safari 8.0.5, Safari 7.1.5, and Safari 6.2.5.

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Where possible, CVE IDs are used to reference the vulnerabilities for further information.

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Safari 8.0.5, Safari 7.1.5, and Safari 6.2.5

• Safari

  Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, and OS X Yosemite v10.10.2

  Impact: Users may be tracked by malicious websites using client certificates

  Description: An issue existed in Safari's client certificate matching for SSL authentication. This issue was addressed by improved matching of valid client certificates.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-1129 : Stefan Kraus of fluid Operations AG, Sylvain Munaut of Whatever s.a.

• Safari

  Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, and OS X Yosemite v10.10.2

  Impact: Notifications preferences may reveal users' browsing history in private browsing mode

  Description: Responding to push notification requests in private browsing mode revealed users' browsing history. This issue was addressed by disabling push notification prompts in private browsing mode.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-1128 : Joseph Winn of Credit Union Geek

• Safari

  Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, and OS X Yosemite v10.10.2

  Impact: Users' browsing history may not be completely purged

  Description: A state management issue existed in Safari that resulted in users' browsing history not being purged from history.plist. This issue was addressed by improved state management.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-1112 : William Breuer, The Netherlands

• WebKit

  Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, and OS X Yosemite v10.10.2

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

  Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in WebKit. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-1119 : Renata Hodovan of University of Szeged / Samsung Electronics

  CVE-2015-1120 : Apple

  CVE-2015-1121 : Apple

  CVE-2015-1122 : Apple

  CVE-2015-1124 : Apple

• WebKit

  Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, and OS X Yosemite v10.10.2

  Impact: Users' browsing history in private mode may be indexed

  Description: A state management issue existed in Safari that inadvertently indexed users' browsing history when in private browsing mode. This issue was addressed by improved state management.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-1127 : Tyler C

• WebKit

  Available for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, and OS X Yosemite v10.10.2

  Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to resources of another origin being accessed

  Description: An issue existed in WebKit's credential handling for FTP URLs. This issue was addressed by improved URL decoding.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-1126 : Jouko Pynnonen of Klikki Oy