Jan 19, 2016

About the security content of OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 and Security Update 2016-001

About the security content of OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 and Security Update 2016-001

This document describes the security content of OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 and Security Update 2016-001.

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OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 and Security Update 2016-001

  • AppleGraphicsPowerManagement
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 to v10.11.2
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2016-1716 : moony li of Trend Micro and Liang Chen and Sen Nie of KeenLab, Tencent
  • Disk Images
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 to v10.11.2
    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-2016-1717 : Frank Graziano of Yahoo! Pentest Team
  • IOAcceleratorFamily
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11.0 to v10.11.2
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2016-1718 : Juwei Lin Trend Micro working with HP's Zero Day Initiative
  • IOHIDFamily
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 to v10.11.2
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in an IOHIDFamily API. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2016-1719 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
  • IOKit
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 to v10.11.2
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2016-1720 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
  • Kernel
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 to v10.11.2
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2016-1721 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero and Ju Zhu of Trend Micro
  • libxslt
    Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 to v10.11.2
    Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution
    Description: A type confusion issue existed in libxslt. This issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2015-7995 : puzzor
  • OSA Scripts
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 to v10.11.2
    Impact: A quarantined application may be able to override OSA script libraries installed by the user
    Description: An issue existed when searching for scripting libraries. This issue was addressed through improved search order and quarantine checks.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2016-1729 : an anonymous researcher
  • syslog
    Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 to v10.11.2
    Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with root privileges
    Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
    CVE-ID
    CVE-2016-1722 : Joshua J. Drake and Nikias Bassen of Zimperium zLabs
OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 includes the security content of Safari 9.0.3.

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