Dec 8, 2015

About the security content of OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 and Security Update 2015-008

About the security content of OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 and Security Update 2015-008

This document describes the security content of OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 and Security Update 2015-008.

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Where possible, CVE IDs are used to reference the vulnerabilities for further information.
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OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 and Security Update 2015-008

  • apache_mod_php
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in PHP
    Description: Multiple vulnerabilities existed in PHP versions prior to 5.5.29, the most serious of which may have led to remote code execution. These were addressed by updating PHP to version 5.5.30.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7803
    CVE-2015-7804
  • AppSandbox
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A malicious application may maintain access to Contacts after having access revoked
    Description: An issue existed in the sandbox's handling of hard links. This issue was addressed through improved hardening of the app sandbox.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7001 : Razvan Deaconescu and Mihai Bucicoiu of University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest; Luke Deshotels and William Enck of North Carolina State University; Lucas Vincenzo Davi and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi of TU Darmstadt
  • Bluetooth
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the Bluetooth HCI interface. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7108 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
  • CFNetwork HTTPProtocol
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may be able to bypass HSTS
    Description: An input validation issue existed within URL processing. This issue was addressed through improved URL validation.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7094 : Tsubasa Iinuma (@llamakko_cafe) of Gehirn Inc. and Muneaki Nishimura (nishimunea)
  • Compression
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution
    Description: An uninitialized memory access issue existed in zlib. This issue was addressed through improved memory initialization and additional validation of zlib streams.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7054 : j00ru
  • Configuration Profiles
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A local attacker may be able to install a configuration profile without admin privileges
    Description: An issue existed when installing configuration profiles. This issue was addressed through improved authorization checks.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7062 : David Mulder of Dell Software
  • CoreGraphics
    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution
    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the processing of font files. This issue was addressed through improved input validation.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7105 : John Villamil (@day6reak), Yahoo Pentest Team
  • CoreMedia Playback
    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution
    Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in the processing of malformed media files. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7074 : Apple
    CVE-2015-7075
  • Disk Images
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the parsing of disk images. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7110 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
  • EFI
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
    Description: A path validation issue existed in the kernel loader. This was addressed through improved environment sanitization.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7063 : Apple
  • File Bookmark
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
    Description: A path validation issue existed in app scoped bookmarks. This was addressed through improved environment sanitization.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7071 : Apple
  • Hypervisor
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
    Description: A use after free issue existed in the handling of VM objects. This issue was addressed through improved memory management.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7078 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
  • iBooks
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted iBooks file may lead to disclosure of user information
    Description: An XML external entity reference issue existed with iBook parsing. This issue was addressed through improved parsing.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7081 : Behrouz Sadeghipour (@Nahamsec) and Patrik Fehrenbach (@ITSecurityguard)
  • ImageIO
    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in ImageIO. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7053 : Apple
  • Intel Graphics Driver
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
    Description: A null pointer dereference issue was addressed through improved input validation.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7076 : Juwei Lin of TrendMicro, beist and ABH of BoB, and JeongHoon Shin@A.D.D
  • Intel Graphics Driver
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the Intel Graphics Driver. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7106 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero, Juwei Lin of TrendMicro, beist and ABH of BoB, and JeongHoon Shin@A.D.D
  • Intel Graphics Driver
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
    Description: An out of bounds memory access issue existed in the Intel Graphics Driver. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7077 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
  • IOAcceleratorFamily
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in IOAcceleratorFamily. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7109 : Juwei Lin of TrendMicro
  • IOHIDFamily
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
    Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in IOHIDFamily API. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7111 : beist and ABH of BoB
    CVE-2015-7112 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
  • IOKit SCSI
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
    Description: A null pointer dereference existed in the handling of a certain userclient type. This issue was addressed through improved validation.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7068 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
  • IOThunderboltFamily
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A local user may be able to cause a system denial of service
    Description: A null pointer dereference existed in IOThunderboltFamily's handling of certain userclient types. This issue was addressed through improved validation of IOThunderboltFamily contexts.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7067 : Juwei Lin of TrendMicro
  • Kernel
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A local application may be able to cause a denial of service
    Description: Multiple denial of service issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7040 : Lufeng Li of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
    CVE-2015-7041 : Lufeng Li of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
    CVE-2015-7042 : Lufeng Li of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
    CVE-2015-7043 : Tarjei Mandt (@kernelpool)
  • Kernel
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
    Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in the kernel. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7083 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
    CVE-2015-7084 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
  • Kernel
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
    Description: An issue existed in the parsing of mach messages. This issue was addressed through improved validation of mach messages.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7047 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
  • kext tools
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
    Description: A validation issue existed during the loading of kernel extensions. This issue was addressed through additional verification.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7052 : Apple
  • Keychain Access
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A malicious application may be able to masquerade as the Keychain Server.
    Description: An issue existed in how Keychain Access interacted with Keychain Agent. This issue was resolved by removing legacy functionality.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7045 : Luyi Xing and XiaoFeng Wang of Indiana University Bloomington, Xiaolong Bai of Indiana University Bloomington and Tsinghua University, Tongxin Li of Peking University, Kai Chen of Indiana University Bloomington and Institute of Information Engineering, Xiaojing Liao of Georgia Institute of Technology, Shi-Min Hu of Tsinghua University, and Xinhui Han of Peking University
  • libarchive
    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution
    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the processing of archives. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2011-2895 : @practicalswift
  • libc
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted package may lead to arbitrary code execution
    Description: Multiple buffer overflows existed in the C standard library. These issues were addressed through improved bounds checking.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7038
    CVE-2015-7039 : Maksymilian Arciemowicz (CXSECURITY.COM)
  • libexpat
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in expat
    Description: Multiple vulnerabilities existed in expat version prior to 2.1.0. These were addressed by updating expat to versions 2.1.0.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2012-0876 : Vincent Danen
    CVE-2012-1147 : Kurt Seifried
    CVE-2012-1148 : Kurt Seifried
  • libxml2
    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted XML document may lead to disclosure of user information
    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the parsing of XML files. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-3807 : Wei Lei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University
  • OpenGL
    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution
    Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in OpenGL. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7064 : Apple
    CVE-2015-7065 : Apple
    CVE-2015-7066 : Tongbo Luo and Bo Qu of Palo Alto Networks
  • OpenLDAP
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A remote unauthenticated client may be able to cause a denial of service
    Description: An input validation issue existed in OpenLDAP. This issue was addressed through improved input validation.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-6908
  • OpenSSH
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in LibreSSL
    Description: Multiple vulnerabilities existed in LibreSSL versions prior to 2.1.8. These were addressed by updating LibreSSL to version 2.1.8.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-5333
    CVE-2015-5334
  • QuickLook
    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted iWork file may lead to arbitrary code execution
    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the handling of iWork files. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7107
  • Sandbox
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A malicious application with root privileges may be able to bypass kernel address space layout randomization
    Description: An insufficient privilege separation issue existed in xnu. This issue was addressed by improved authorization checks.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7046 : Apple
  • Security
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A remote attacker may cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in handling SSL handshakes. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7073 : Benoit Foucher of ZeroC, Inc.
  • Security
    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5 and OS X Yosemite v10.10.5
    Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted certificate may lead to arbitrary code execution
    Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in the ASN.1 decoder. These issues were addressed through improved input validation
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7059 : David Keeler of Mozilla
    CVE-2015-7060 : Tyson Smith of Mozilla
    CVE-2015-7061 : Ryan Sleevi of Google
  • Security
    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A malicious application may gain access to a user's Keychain items
    Description: An issue existed in the validation of access control lists for keychain items. This issue was addressed through improved access control list checks.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7058
  • System Integrity Protection
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1
    Impact: A malicious application with root privileges may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
    Description: A privilege issue existed in handling union mounts. This issue was addressed by improved authorization checks.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7044 : MacDefender

Notes

  • Security Update 2015-008 is recommended for all users and improves the security of OS X. After installing this update, the QuickTime 7 web browser plug-in will no longer be enabled by default. Learn what to do if you still need this legacy plug-in.
  • OS X El Capitan v10.11.2 includes the security content of Safari 9.0.2.
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