About the security content of OS X El Capitan v10.11.5 and Security Update 2016-003

This document describes the security content of OS X El Capitan v10.11.5 and Security Update 2016-003.

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OS X El Capitan v10.11.5 and Security Update 2016-003

  • AMD

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1792 : beist and ABH of BoB

  • AMD

    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to determine kernel memory layout

    Description: An issue existed that led to the disclosure of kernel memory content. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1791 : daybreaker of Minionz

  • apache_mod_php

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in PHP

    Description: Multiple vulnerabilities existed in PHP versions prior to 5.5.34. These were addressed by updating PHP to version 5.5.34.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2015-8865

    CVE-2016-3141

    CVE-2016-3142

    CVE-2016-4070

    CVE-2016-4071

    CVE-2016-4072

    CVE-2016-4073

  • AppleGraphicsControl

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved validation.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1793 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

    CVE-2016-1794 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

  • AppleGraphicsPowerManagement

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1795 : Moony Li (@Flyic) and Jack Tang (@jacktang310) of Trend Micro

  • ATS

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: A local user may be able to leak sensitive user information

    Description: An out of bounds memory access issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1796 : lokihardt working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative

  • ATS

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges

    Description: An issue existed in the sandbox policy. This was addressed by sandboxing FontValidator.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1797 : lokihardt working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative

  • Audio

    Available for: OS X Yosemite v10.10.5 and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to cause a denial of service

    Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved validation.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1798 : Juwei Lin of TrendMicro

  • Audio

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved input validation.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1799 : Juwei Lin of TrendMicro

  • Captive Network Assistant

    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to execute arbitrary code with user assistance

    Description: A custom URL scheme handling issue was addressed through improved input validation.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1800 : Apple

  • CFNetwork Proxies

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive user information

    Description: An information leak existed in the handling of HTTP and HTTPS requests. This issue was addressed through improved URL handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1801 : Alex Chapman and Paul Stone of Context Information Security

  • CommonCrypto

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: A malicious application may be able to leak sensitive user information

    Description: An issue existed in the handling of return values in CCCrypt. This issue was addressed through improved key length management.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1802 : Klaus Rodewig

  • CoreCapture

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved validation.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1803 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero, daybreaker working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

  • CoreStorage

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A configuration issue was addressed through additional restrictions.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1805 : Stefan Esser

  • Crash Reporter

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with root privileges

    Description: A configuration issue was addressed through additional restrictions.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1806 : lokihardt working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative

  • Disk Images

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: A local attacker may be able to read kernel memory

    Description: A race condition was addressed through improved locking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1807 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

  • Disk Images

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the parsing of disk images. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1808 : Moony Li (@Flyic) and Jack Tang (@jacktang310) of Trend Micro

  • Disk Utility

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: Disk Utility failed to compress and encrypt disk images

    Description: Incorrect keys were being used to encrypt disk images. This issue was addressed by updating the encryption keys.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1809 : Ast A. Moore (@astamoore) and David Foster of TechSmartKids

  • Graphics Drivers

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1810 : Moony Li (@Flyic) and Jack Tang (@jacktang310) of Trend Micro

  • ImageIO

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to a denial of service

    Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved validation.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1811 : Lander Brandt (@landaire)

  • Intel Graphics Driver

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A buffer overflow was addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1812 : Juwei Lin of TrendMicro

  • Intel Graphics Driver

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to determine kernel memory layout

    Description: Multiple access issues were addressed through additional restrictions.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1860 : Brandon Azad and Qidan He (@flanker_hqd) from KeenLab, Tencent

    CVE-2016-1862 : Marco Grassi (@marcograss) of KeenLab (@keen_lab), Tencent

  • IOAcceleratorFamily

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to cause a denial of service

    Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved locking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1814 : Juwei Lin of TrendMicro

  • IOAcceleratorFamily

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1815 : Liang Chen, Qidan He of KeenLab, Tencent working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative

    CVE-2016-1817 : Moony Li (@Flyic) and Jack Tang (@jacktang310) of Trend Micro working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative

    CVE-2016-1818: Juwei Lin of TrendMicro, sweetchip@GRAYHASH working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

    CVE-2016-1819 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

    Entry updated December 13, 2016

  • IOAcceleratorFamily

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved validation.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1813 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

    CVE-2016-1816 : Peter Pi (@heisecode) of Trend Micro and Juwei Lin of Trend Micro

  • IOAudioFamily

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1820 : Moony Li (@Flyic) and Jack Tang (@jacktang310) of Trend Micro working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

  • IOAudioFamily

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved validation.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1821 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

  • IOFireWireFamily

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1822 : CESG

  • IOHIDFamily

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1823 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

    CVE-2016-1824 : Marco Grassi (@marcograss) of KeenLab (@keen_lab), Tencent

    CVE-2016-4650 : Peter Pi of Trend Micro working with HPs Zero Day Initiative

  • IOHIDFamily

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1825 : Brandon Azad

  • Kernel

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1827 : Brandon Azad

    CVE-2016-1828 : Brandon Azad

    CVE-2016-1829 : CESG

    CVE-2016-1830 : Brandon Azad

    CVE-2016-1831 : Brandon Azad

  • Kernel

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: An integer overflow existed in dtrace. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1826 : Ben Murphy working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

  • libc

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: A local attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved input validation.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1832 : Karl Williamson

  • libxml2

    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: Processing maliciously crafted XML may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1833 : Mateusz Jurczyk

    CVE-2016-1834 : Apple

    CVE-2016-1835 : Wei Lei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University

    CVE-2016-1836 : Wei Lei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University

    CVE-2016-1837 : Wei Lei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University

    CVE-2016-1838 : Mateusz Jurczyk

    CVE-2016-1839 : Mateusz Jurczyk

    CVE-2016-1840 : Kostya Serebryany

  • libxslt

    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution

    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1841 : Sebastian Apelt

  • MapKit

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive user information

    Description: Shared links were sent with HTTP rather than HTTPS. This was addressed by enabling HTTPS for shared links.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1842 : Richard Shupak (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rshupak)

  • Messages

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: A malicious server or user may be able to modify another user's contact list

    Description: A validation issue existed in roster changes. This issue was addressed through improved validation of roster sets.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1844 : Thijs Alkemade of Computest

  • Messages

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: A remote attacker may be able to leak sensitive user information

    Description: An encoding issue existed in filename parsing. This issue was addressed through improved filename encoding.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1843 : Heige (a.k.a. SuperHei) of Knownsec 404 Security Team [http://www.knownsec.com]

  • Multi-Touch

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges

    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1804 : Liang Chen, Yubin Fu, Marco Grassi of KeenLab, Tencent of Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative

  • NVIDIA Graphics Drivers

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

    Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1846 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

    CVE-2016-1861 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

  • OpenGL

    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

    Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1847 : Tongbo Luo and Bo Qu of Palo Alto Networks

  • QuickTime

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

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

    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1848 : Francis Provencher from COSIG

  • SceneKit

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

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

    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1850 : Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos

  • Screen Lock

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: A person with physical access to a computer may be able to reset an expired password from the lock screen

    Description: An issue existed in the management of password profiles. This issue was addressed through improved password reset handling.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1851 : an anonymous researcher

  • Tcl

    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later

    Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive user information

    Description: A protocol security issue was addressed by disabling SSLv2.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2016-1853 : researchers at Tel Aviv University, Münster University of Applied Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, the University of Pennsylvania, the Hashcat project, the University of Michigan, Two Sigma, Google, and the OpenSSL project: Nimrod Aviram, Sebastian Schinzel, Juraj Somorovsky, Nadia Heninger, Maik Dankel, Jens Steube, Luke Valenta, David Adrian, J. Alex Halderman, Viktor Dukhovni, Emilia Käsper, Shaanan Cohney, Susanne Engels, Christof Paar, and Yuval Shavitt

OS X El Capitan v10.11.5 includes the security content of Safari 9.1.1.

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