About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.5, Security Update 2018-003 Sierra, Security Update 2018-003 El Capitan
This document describes the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.5, Security Update 2018-003 Sierra, Security Update 2018-003 El Capitan.
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macOS High Sierra 10.13.5, Security Update 2018-003 Sierra, Security Update 2018-003 El Capitan
Accessibility Framework
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: An information disclosure issue existed in Accessibility Framework. This issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2018-4196: Alex Plaskett, Georgi Geshev and Fabian Beterke of MWR Labs working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, and WanderingGlitch of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
AMD
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A local user may be able to read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read issue existed that led to the disclosure of kernel memory. This was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4253: shrek_wzw of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
AMD
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A local user may be able to read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4256: shrek_wzw of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
AMD
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A local user may be able to read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4255: shrek_wzw of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
AMD
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: An input validation issue existed in the kernel. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4254: an anonymous researcher
AMD
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: An input validation issue existed in the kernel. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4254: shrek_wzw of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
AppleGraphicsControl
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2018-4258: shrek_wzw of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
AppleGraphicsPowerManagement
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation.
CVE-2018-4257: shrek_wzw of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
apache_mod_php
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: Issues in php were addressed in this update
Description: This issue was addressed by updating to php version 7.1.16.
CVE-2018-7584: Wei Lei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University
ATS
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4219: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36)
Bluetooth
Available for: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, 2015), MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015), MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017), MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports), MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports), MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2016), MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015), MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, 2017), iMac Pro, iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015), iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017), iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015), iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2017), iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2015), and iMac (21.5-inch, 2017)
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to intercept Bluetooth traffic
Description: An input validation issue existed in Bluetooth. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-5383: Lior Neumann and Eli Biham
Bluetooth
Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout.
Description: An information disclosure issue existed in device properties. This issue was addressed with improved object management.
CVE-2018-4171: shrek_wzw of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
CoreGraphics
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4194: Jihui Lu of Tencent KeenLab, Yu Zhou of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab
CUPS
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A local process may modify other processes without entitlement checks
Description: An issue existed in CUPS. This issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.
CVE-2018-4180: Dan Bastone of Gotham Digital Science
CUPS
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A local user may be able to read arbitrary files as root
Description: An issue existed in CUPS. This issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.
CVE-2018-4181: Eric Rafaloff and John Dunlap of Gotham Digital Science
CUPS
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions on CUPS.
CVE-2018-4182: Dan Bastone of Gotham Digital Science
CUPS
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2018-4183: Dan Bastone and Eric Rafaloff of Gotham Digital Science
EFI
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An attacker with physical access to a device may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved logic.
CVE-2018-4478: an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher, Ben Erickson of Trusted Computer Consulting, LLC
Firmware
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A malicious application with root privileges may be able to modify the EFI flash memory region
Description: A device configuration issue was addressed with an updated configuration.
CVE-2018-4251: Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov
FontParser
Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2018-4211: Proteas of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
Grand Central Dispatch
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
Description: An issue existed in parsing entitlement plists. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4229: Jakob Rieck (@0xdead10cc) of the Security in Distributed Systems Group, University of Hamburg
Graphics Drivers
Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.
CVE-2018-4159: Axis and pjf of IceSword Lab of Qihoo 360
Hypervisor
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption vulnerability was addressed with improved locking.
CVE-2018-4242: Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
iBooks
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to spoof password prompts in iBooks
Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4202: Jerry Decime
Identity Services
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A malicious application may be able to access local users AppleIDs
Description: A privacy issue in the handling of Open Directory records was addressed with improved indexing.
CVE-2018-4217: Jacob Greenfield of Commonwealth School
Intel Graphics Driver
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.
CVE-2018-4141: an anonymous researcher, Zhao Qixun (@S0rryMybad) of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
IOFireWireAVC
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved locking.
CVE-2018-4228: Benjamin Gnahm (@mitp0sh) of Mentor Graphics
IOGraphics
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4236: Zhao Qixun(@S0rryMybad) of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
IOHIDFamily
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4234: Proteas of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
Kernel
Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4249: Kevin Backhouse of Semmle Ltd.
Kernel
Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: In some circumstances, some operating systems may not expect or properly handle an Intel architecture debug exception after certain instructions. The issue appears to be from an undocumented side effect of the instructions. An attacker might utilize this exception handling to gain access to Ring 0 and access sensitive memory or control operating system processes.
CVE-2018-8897: Andy Lutomirski, Nick Peterson (linkedin.com/in/everdox) of Everdox Tech LLC
Kernel
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2018-4241: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
CVE-2018-4243: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
libxpc
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2018-4237: Samuel Groß (@5aelo) working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative
libxpc
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4404: Samuel Groß (@5aelo) working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An attacker may be able to exfiltrate the contents of S/MIME- encrypted e-mail
Description: An issue existed in the handling of encrypted Mail. This issue was addressed with improved isolation of MIME in Mail.
CVE-2018-4227: Damian Poddebniak of Münster University of Applied Sciences, Christian Dresen of Münster University of Applied Sciences, Jens Müller of Ruhr University Bochum, Fabian Ising of Münster University of Applied Sciences, Sebastian Schinzel of Münster University of Applied Sciences, Simon Friedberger of KU Leuven, Juraj Somorovsky of Ruhr University Bochum, Jörg Schwenk of Ruhr University Bochum
Messages
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A local user may be able to conduct impersonation attacks
Description: An injection issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4235: Anurodh Pokharel of Salesforce.com
Messages
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted message may lead to a denial of service
Description: This issue was addressed with improved message validation.
CVE-2018-4240: Sriram (@Sri_Hxor) of PrimeFort Pvt. Ltd
NVIDIA Graphics Drivers
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved locking.
CVE-2018-4230: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Security
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: Users may be tracked by malicious websites using client certificates
Description: An issue existed in the handling of S-MIME certificates. This issue was addressed with improved validation of S-MIME certificates.
CVE-2018-4221: Damian Poddebniak of Münster University of Applied Sciences, Christian Dresen of Münster University of Applied Sciences, Jens Müller of Ruhr University Bochum, Fabian Ising of Münster University of Applied Sciences, Sebastian Schinzel of Münster University of Applied Sciences, Simon Friedberger of KU Leuven, Juraj Somorovsky of Ruhr University Bochum, Jörg Schwenk of Ruhr University Bochum
Security
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A local user may be able to read a persistent account identifier
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2018-4223: Abraham Masri (@cheesecakeufo)
Security
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A local user may be able to read a persistent device identifier
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2018-4224: Abraham Masri (@cheesecakeufo)
Security
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A local user may be able to modify the state of the Keychain
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2018-4225: Abraham Masri (@cheesecakeufo)
Security
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A local user may be able to view sensitive user information
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2018-4226: Abraham Masri (@cheesecakeufo)
Speech
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
Description: A sandbox issue existed in the handling of microphone access. This issue was addressed with improved handling of microphone access.
CVE-2018-4184: Jakob Rieck (@0xdead10cc) of the Security in Distributed Systems Group, University of Hamburg
UIKit
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted text file may lead to a denial of service
Description: A validation issue existed in the handling of text. This issue was addressed with improved validation of text.
CVE-2018-4198: Hunter Byrnes
Windows Server
Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4193: Markus Gaasedelen, Amy Burnett, and Patrick Biernat of Ret2 Systems, Inc working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, Richard Zhu (fluorescence) working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative
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