OS X Mavericks v10.9
- Application Firewall
- Impact: socketfilterfw --blockApp may not block applications from receiving network connections
- Description: The socketfilterfw command line tool's --blockApp option did not properly block applications from receiving network connections. This issue was addressed through improved handling of the --blockApp options.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5165
- App Sandbox
- 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 disallowing sandboxed applications from specifying arguments.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5179
- Bluetooth
- Impact: A malicious local application could cause an unexpected system termination
- Description: The Bluetooth USB host controller deleted interfaces needed for later operations. This issue was addressed by retaining the interface until it is no longer needed.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5166
- CFNetwork
- CFNetwork SSL
- Impact: An attacker could decrypt part of a SSL connection
- Description: Only the SSLv3 and TLS 1.0 versions of SSL were used. These versions are subject to a protocol weakness when using block ciphers. A man-in-the-middle attacker could have injected invalid data, causing the connection to close but revealing some information about the previous data. If the same connection was attempted repeatedly the attacker may eventually have been able to decrypt the data being sent, such as a password. This issue was addressed by enabling TLS 1.2.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3389
- Console
- Impact: Clicking on a malicious log entry may lead to unexpected application execution
- Description: This update modified the behavior of Console when clicking on a log entry with an attached URL. Rather than opening the URL, Console will now preview the URL with Quick Look.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5168
- CoreGraphics
- Impact: Windows may be visible over the lock screen after display sleep
- Description: A logic issue existed in CoreGraphics's handling of display sleep mode, resulting in data corruption that could result in windows being visible over the lock screen. The issue is addressed through improved handling of display sleep.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5169
- CoreGraphics
- Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: A buffer underflow existed in the handling of PDF files. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5170
- CoreGraphics
- Impact: An unprivileged application may be able to log keystrokes entered into other applications even when secure input mode is enabled
- Description: By registering for a hotkey event, an unprivileged application could log keystrokes entered into other applications even when secure input mode was enabled. This issue was addressed by additional validation of hotkey events.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5171
- curl
- dyld
- Impact: An attacker who has arbitrary code execution on a device may be able to persist code execution across reboots
- Description: Multiple buffer overflows existed in dyld's openSharedCacheFile() function. These issues were addressed through improved bounds checking.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-3950
- IOKitUser
- Impact: A malicious local application could cause an unexpected system termination
- Description: A null pointer dereference existed in IOCatalogue. This issue was addressed through additional type checking.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5138
- IOSerialFamily
- 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 improved bounds checking.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5139
- Kernel
- Impact: Use of SHA-2 digest functions in the kernel may result in an unexpected system termination
- Description: An incorrect output length was used for the SHA-2 family of digest functions, resulting in a kernel panic when these functions were used, primarily during IPSec connections. The issue was addressed through use of the expected output length.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5172
- Kernel
- Impact: Kernel stack memory may be disclosed to local users
- Description: An information disclosure issue existed in the msgctl and segctl APIs. This issue was addressed by initializing data structures returned from the kernel.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5142
- Kernel
- Impact: A local user may cause a denial of service
- Description: The kernel random number generator would hold a lock while satisfying a request from userspace, allowing a local user to make a large request and hold the lock for long periods of time, denying service to other users of the random number generator. This issue was addressed by releasing and reacquiring the lock for large requests more frequently.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5173
- Kernel
- Impact: A local, unpriviledged user may be able to cause an unexpected system termination
- Description: An integer sign issue existed in the handling of tty reads. This issue was addressed through improved handling of tty reads.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5174
- Kernel
- Impact: A local user may be able to cause kernel memory information disclosure or an unexpected system termination Description: An out of bounds read issue existed in the handling of Mach-O files. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5175
- Kernel
- Impact: A local user may be able to cause a system hang
- Description: An integer truncation issue existed in the handling of tty devices. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5176
- Kernel
- Impact: A local user may be able to cause an unexpected system termination
- Description: The kernel would panic when an invalid user-supplied iovec structure was detected. This issue was addressed through improved validation of iovec structures.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5177
- Kernel
- Impact: Unprivileged processes may be able to cause an unexpected system termination or arbitrary code execution in the kernel
- Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the handling of arguments to the posix_spawn API. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-3954
- Kernel
- Impact: Source specific multicast program may cause an unexpected system termination when using Wi-Fi network
- Description: An error checking issue existed in the handling of a multicast packets. This issue was addressed through improved handling of multicast packets.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5184
- Kernel
- Impact: An attacker on a local network can cause a denial of service
- Description: An attacker on a local network can send specially crafted IPv6 ICMP packets and cause high CPU load. The issue was addressed by rate limiting ICMP packets before verifying their checksum.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2011-2391
- Kernel
- Impact: A malicious local application could cause a system hang
- Description: An integer truncation issue existed in the kernel socket interface, which could be leveraged to force the CPU into an infinite loop. The issue was addressed by using a larger sized variable.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5141
- Kext Management
- Impact: An unauthorized process can disable some loaded kernel extensions
- Description: An issue existed in kext management's handling of IPC messages from unauthenticated senders. This issue was addressed by adding additional authorization checks.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5145
- LaunchServices
- Libc
- Impact: Under unusual circumstances some random numbers may be predictable
- Description: If the kernel random number generator was not accessible to srandomdev(), the function fell back to an alternative method which had been removed by optimization, leading to a lack of randomness. This issue was addressed by modifying the code to be correct under optimization.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5180
- Mail Accounts
- Impact: Mail may not choose the most secure authentication method available
- Description: When auto-configuring a mail account on certain mailservers, the Mail app would choose plaintext authentication over CRAM-MD5 authentication. This issue was addressed through improved logic handling.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5181
- Mail Header Display
- Impact: An unsigned message may appear to be validly signed.
- Description: A logic issue existed in Mail's handling of unsigned messages that nevertheless contained a multipart/signed part. The issue was addressed through improved handling of unsigned messages.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5182
- Mail Networking
- Impact: Information may be briefly transferred in plain text when non-TLS encryption is configured.
- Description: When Kerberos authentication was enabled and Transport Layer Security was disabled, Mail would send some unencrypted data to the mail server, leading to an unexpected termination of the connection. The issue was addressed through improved handling of this configuration.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5183
- OpenLDAP
- Impact: The ldapsearch command line tool did not honor the minssf configuration
- Description: The ldapsearch command line tool did not honor the minssf configuration, which could lead to weak encryption being allowed unexpectedly. This issue was addressed through improved handling of the minssf configuration.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5185
- perl
- Power Management
- Impact: The screen lock may not engage after the specified time period
- Description: A locking issue existed in power assertion management. The issue was addressed through improved lock handling.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5186
- python
- Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in python 2.7
- Description: Multiple vulnerabilities existed in python 2.7.2, the most serious of which may lead to decryption of the content of a SSL connection. This update addresses the issues by updating python to version 2.7.5. Further information is available via the python site at http://www.python.org/download/releases/
- CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3389, CVE-2011-4944, CVE-2012-0845, CVE-2012-0876, CVE-2012-1150
- python
- Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in python 2.6
- Description: Multiple vulnerabilities existed in python 2.6.7, the most serious of which may lead to decryption of the content of a SSL connection. This update addresses the issues by updating python to version 2.6.8 and applying the patch for CVE-2011-4944 from the Python project. Further information is available via the python site at http://www.python.org/download/releases/
- CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3389, CVE-2011-4944, CVE-2012-0845, CVE-2012-0876, CVE-2012-1150
- ruby
- Security
- Impact: Support for X.509 certificates with MD5 hashes may expose users to spoofing and information disclosure as attacks improve
- Description: Certificates signed using the MD5 hash algorithm were accepted by OS X. This algorithm has known cryptographic weaknesses. Further research or a misconfigured certificate authority could have allowed the creation of X.509 certificates with attacker controlled values that would have been trusted by the system. This would have exposed X.509 based protocols to spoofing, man in the middle attacks, and information disclosure. This update disables support for an X.509 certificate with an MD5 hash for any use other than as a trusted root certificate.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3427
- Security - Authorization
- Impact: An administrator's security preferences may not be respected
- Description: The "Require an administrator password to access system preferences with lock icons" setting allows administrators to add an additional layer of protection to sensitive system settings. In some cases where an administrator had enabled this setting, applying a software update or upgrade could have subsequently disabled the setting. This issue was addressed through improved handling of authorization rights.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5189
- Security - Smart Card Services
- Impact: Smart Card Services may be unavailable when certificate revocation checks are enabled
- Description: A logic issue existed in OS X's handling of Smart Card certificate revocation checks. The issue was addressed through improved certificate revocation support.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5190
- Screen Lock
- Impact: The "Lock Screen" command may not take effect immediately
- Description: The "Lock Screen" command in the Keychain Status menu bar item did not take effect until after the "Require password [amount of time] after sleep or screen saver begins" setting had elapsed.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5187
- Screen Lock
- Screen Sharing Server
- Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution
- Description: A format string vulnerability existed in Screen Sharing Server's handling of the VNC username.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5135
- syslog
- Impact: A Guest user may be able to see log messages from previous Guests
- Description: The console log was visible to the Guest user and contained messages from previous Guest user sessions. This issue was addressed by making the console log for Guest users visible only to administrators.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5191
- USB
- Impact: A malicious local application could cause an unexpected system termination
- Description: The USB hub controller didn't check the port and port number of requests. The issue was addressed by adding checks of the port and port number.
- CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5192
Note: OS X Mavericks includes Safari 7.0, which incorporates the security content of Safari 6.1. For further details see "About the security content of Safari 6.1" at
http://http//support.apple.com/kb/HT6000
