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Apple Releases Security Update 2006-002

Apple has today released a security patch that once again addresses the OS X Zero Day exploit present in Safari and Mail.app.

Weighing in at 14.3MB for PPC, Apple briefly writes the following (details after the jump);

Security Update 2006-002 is recommended for all users and improves the reliability and security of the following components:

apache_mod_php
CoreTypes
LaunchServices
Mail
Safari
rsync

Additionally, this update incorporates Security Update 2006-001, which improves the security of the following components:

apache_mod_php
automount
Bom
Directory Services
iChat
IPSec
LaunchServices
LibSystem
loginwindow
Mail
rsync
Safari
Syndication

  • CoreTypes

    CVE-ID: CVE-2006-0400

    Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.5, Mac OS X Server v10.4.5

    Impact: Remote web sites can cause JavaScript to bypass the same-origin policy

    Description: When documents containing Javascript are loaded from a remote site, data access is restricted by the same-origin policy. However, under certain situations, maliciously-crafted archives can cause these restrictions to be bypassed. This update addresses the issue by flagging these documents as unsafe.

  • Mail

    CVE-ID: CVE-2006-0396

    Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.5, Mac OS X Server v10.4.5

    Impact: Double-clicking an attachment in Mail may result in arbitrary code execution

    Description: By preparing a specially-crafted email message with attachments, and enticing a user to double-click on that attachment within Mail, an attacker may trigger a buffer overflow. This could result in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Mail. This update addresses the issue by performing additional bounds checking. This issue does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X v10.4. Credit to Kevin Finisterre of DigitalMunition for reporting this issue.

  • Safari, LaunchServices, CoreTypes

    CVE-ID: CVE-2006-0397, CVE-2006-0398, CVE-2006-0399

    Available for: Mac OS X v10.4.5, Mac OS X Server v10.4.5

    Impact: Viewing a malicious web site may result in arbitrary code execution

    Description: Security Update 2006-001 addressed an issue where Safari could automatically open a file which appears to be a safe file type, such as an image or movie, but is actually an application. This update provides additional checks to identify variations of the malicious file types addressed in Security Update 2006-001 so that they are not automatically opened. This issue does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X v10.4. Credit to Will Dormann of CERT/CC and Andris Baumberger for reporting several of these issues.

    The following non-security issues introduced by Security Update 2006-001 are also addressed by this update:

  • Download Validation: Security Update 2006-001 could cause the user to be warned when provided with certain safe file types, such as Word documents, and folders containing custom icons. These unneeded warnings are removed with this update.
  • apache_mod_php: A regression in PHP 4.4.1 that could prevent SquirrelMail from functioning is corrected with this update.
  • rsync: A regression in rsync that prevented the "--delete" command line option from functioning is corrected with this update.