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Apple Safari Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA32706
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Release Date:
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2008-11-14
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Popularity:
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2,931 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Safari 3.x
Safari for Windows 3.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-2096
CVE-2008-1767
CVE-2008-2303
CVE-2008-2317
CVE-2008-2327
CVE-2008-2332
CVE-2008-3608
CVE-2008-3623
CVE-2008-3642
CVE-2008-3644
CVE-2008-4216
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple Safari, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information and by malicious people to disclose sensitive information or compromise a user's system.
1) A vulnerability is caused due to insecure zlib code.
For more information:
SA15949
2) A vulnerability is caused due to insecure libxslt code.
For more information:
SA30315
3) An unspecified error in CoreGraphics within the processing of handling of color spaces can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted image.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
4) A vulnerability in the processing of TIFF images can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
For more information:
SA31610
5) A vulnerability in the processing of TIFF images can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
For more information:
SA31882
6) A vulnerability in the processing of JPEG images can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
For more information:
SA31882
7) A vulnerability in the handling of images with an embedded ICC profile can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
For more information:
SA32222
8) Data supplied to form fields may be exposed via the browser page cache, although the "Autocomplete" feature is disabled.
9) A signedness error in Safari when handling Javascript array indices can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
For more information:
SA31074
10) A vulnerability in the handling of style sheet elements can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
For more information:
SA31074
11) An error in the plugin interface in Webkit can be exploited to disclose sensitive information by launching local files.
Solution:
Update to version 3.2.
Safari 3.2 for Windows:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/safari32forwindows.html
Safari 3.2 for Tiger:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/safari32fortiger.html
Safari 3.2 for Leopard:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/safari32forleopard.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits:
1) Robbie Joosten of bioinformatics@school and David Gunnells of the University of Alabama at Birmingham
2) Anthony de Almeida Lopes of Outpost24 AB and Chris Evans of the Google Security Team
5) Robert Swiecki of the Google Security Team
8) an anonymous researcher
9) SkyLined of Google
10) an anonymous researcher working with the TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative
11) Billy Rios of Microsoft and Nitesh Dhanjani of Ernst & Young
Original Advisory:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3298
Other References:
SA15949:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15949/
SA30315:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30315/
SA31074:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31074/
SA31610:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31610/
SA31882:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31882/
SA32222:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32222/
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