About the security content of AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.8.1
This document describes the security content of AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.8.1.
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AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.8.1
AirPort Base Station Firmware
Available for: AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule base stations with 802.11n
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to leak memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8581: Lucio Albornoz
AirPort Base Station Firmware
Available for: AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule base stations with 802.11n
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a system denial of service
Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8588: Vince Cali (@0x56)
AirPort Base Station Firmware
Available for: AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule base stations with 802.11n
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2019-8578: Maxime Villard
AirPort Base Station Firmware
Available for: AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule base stations with 802.11n
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a system denial of service
Description: A denial of service issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2018-6918: Maxime Villard
AirPort Base Station Firmware
Available for: AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule base stations with 802.11n
Impact: A base station factory reset may not delete all user information
Description: The issue was addressed with improved data deletion.
CVE-2019-8575: Francesco Ferretti of Magnetic Media Network SpA, joshua stein
AirPort Base Station Firmware
Available for: AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule base stations with 802.11n
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 memory handling.
CVE-2019-7291: Maxime Villard
AirPort Base Station Firmware
Available for: AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule base stations with 802.11n
Impact: Source-routed IPv4 packets may be unexpectedly accepted
Description: Source-routed IPv4 packets were disabled by default.
CVE-2019-8580: Maxime Villard
AirPort Base Station Firmware
Available for: AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule base stations with 802.11n
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution
Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8572: Maxime Villard
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