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Apple Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities ( 14 May 2009 )

Last Update Date: 28 Jan 2011 Release Date: 14 May 2009 5490 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by remote or local attackers to disclose sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. These issues are caused by input validation errors, buffer overflows, implementation issues, memory corruptions, integer overflow and underflows, memory leaks, null pointer dereferences, out-of-bounds memory accesses, unchecked indexes, and incomplete error checks in Apache, ATS, BIND, CFNetwork, CoreGraphics, Cscope, CUPS, Disk Images, enscript, Flash Player plug-in, Help Viewer, iChat, ICU, IPSec, Kerberos, Kernel, Launch Services, libxml, Net-SNMP, Network Time, Networking, OpenSSL, PHP, QuickDraw Manager, ruby, Safari, Spotlight, system_cmds, telnet, WebKit, and X11.