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Jan 24, 2018 The update version 10.11.6 brings the patch on OS X El Capitan macOS High Sierra also gets 10.13.3 for minor fixes The first week of 2018 saw global security flaws such as Meltdown and Spectre. There are patches against Meltdown for Linux (KPTI (formerly KAISER)), Windows, and OS X. There is also work to harden software against future exploitation of Spectre, respectively to patch software after exploitation through Spectre ( LLVM patch, MSVC, ARM speculation barrier header ).

This vulnerability is a variant of the Spectre Variant 1 speculative execution side channel vulnerability and has been assigned CVE-2019-1125. Microsoft released a security update for the Windows operating system on July 9, 2019 to help mitigate this issue. Jan 08, 2018 Apple releases patches addressing the Spectre vulnerability impacting its macOS, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Apple said the Safari 11.0.2 update is available for OS X El Capitan 10.11.6.

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Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible.

macOS High Sierra 10.13.2, Security Update 2017-002 Sierra, and Security Update 2017-005 El Capitan

Released December 6, 2017

APFS

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

Impact: APFS encryption keys may not be securely deleted after hibernating

Description: A logic issue existed in APFS when deleting keys during hibernation. This was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2017-13887: David Ryskalczyk

Entry added June 21, 2018

apache

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted Apache configuration directive may result in the disclosure of process memory

Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 2.4.28.

CVE-2017-9798: Hanno Böck

Entry updated December 18, 2018

Auto Unlock

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.

CVE-2017-13905: Samuel Groß (@5aelo)

Entry added October 18, 2018

CFNetwork Session

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

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

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

CVE-2017-7172: Richard Zhu (fluorescence) working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative

Entry added January 22, 2018

Contacts

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

Impact: Sharing contact information may lead to unexpected data sharing

Description: An issue existed in the handling of Contact sharing. This issue was addressed with improved handling of user information.

CVE-2017-13892: Ryan Manly of Glenbrook High School District 225

Entry added October 18, 2018

CoreAnimation

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

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

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

CVE-2017-7171: 360 Security working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, and Tencent Keen Security Lab (@keen_lab) working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative

Entry added January 22, 2018

CoreFoundation

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.

CVE-2017-7151: Samuel Groß (@5aelo)

Entry added October 18, 2018

curl

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

Impact: Malicious FTP servers may be able to cause the client to read out-of-bounds memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read issue existed in the FTP PWD response parsing. This issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2017-1000254: Max Dymond

Directory Utility

Available for: macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

Not impacted: macOS Sierra 10.12.6 and earlier

Impact: An attacker may be able to bypass administrator authentication without supplying the administrator’s password

Description: A logic error existed in the validation of credentials. This was addressed with improved credential validation.

CVE-2017-13872

ICU

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory

Description: An integer overflow was addressed through improved input validation.

CVE-2017-15422: Yuan Deng of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab

Entry added March 14, 2018

Intel Graphics Driver

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

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

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

CVE-2017-13883: Yu Wang of Didi Research America

CVE-2017-7163: Yu Wang of Didi Research America

CVE-2017-7155: Yu Wang of Didi Research America

Entry updated December 21, 2017

Intel Graphics Driver

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

Impact: A local user may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read issue existed that led to the disclosure of kernel memory. This was addressed through improved input validation.

CVE-2017-13878: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

Intel Graphics Driver

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

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

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed through improved bounds checking.

CVE-2017-13875: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

IOAcceleratorFamily

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

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

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

CVE-2017-7159: found by IMF developed by HyungSeok Han (daramg.gift) of SoftSec, KAIST (softsec.kaist.ac.kr)

Os X Patch For Spectre Review

Entry updated December 21, 2017

IOKit

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

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

Description: An input validation issue existed in the kernel. This issue was addressed through improved input validation.

CVE-2017-13848: Alex Plaskett of MWR InfoSecurity

CVE-2017-13858: an anonymous researcher

IOKit

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

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

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved state management.

CVE-2017-13847: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

IOKit

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

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

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

CVE-2017-7162: Tencent Keen Security Lab (@keen_lab) working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative

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