ID

VAR-201711-0461

CVE

CVE-2017-13810

TITLE

Apple macOS Vulnerability in obtaining important information in kernel components

DESCRIPTION

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.1 is affected. The issue involves the "Kernel" component. It allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an error in packet counters. Apple macOS High Sierra is a set of dedicated operating systems developed by Apple (Apple) for Mac computers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 APPLE-SA-2017-10-31-8 Additional information for APPLE-SA-2017-09-25-1 macOS High Sierra 10.13 macOS High Sierra 10.13 addresses the following: 802.1X Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: An attacker may be able to exploit weaknesses in TLS 1.0 Description: A protocol security issue was addressed by enabling TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2. CVE-2017-13832: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 apache Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Multiple issues in Apache Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 2.4.27. CVE-2017-3167 CVE-2017-3169 CVE-2017-7659 CVE-2017-7668 CVE-2017-7679 CVE-2017-9788 CVE-2017-9789 Entry added October 31, 2017 apache Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Multiple issues in Apache Description: Multiple issues existed in Apache. These were addressed by updating Apache to version 2.4.25. CVE-2016-736 CVE-2016-2161 CVE-2016-5387 CVE-2016-8740 CVE-2016-8743 Entry added October 31, 2017 AppleScript Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Decompiling an AppleScript with osadecompile may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization. CVE-2017-13809: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 Application Firewall Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: A previously denied application firewall setting may take effect after upgrading Description: An upgrade issue existed in the handling of firewall settings. This issue was addressed through improved handling of firewall settings during upgrades. CVE-2017-7084: an anonymous researcher AppSandbox Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: An application may be able to cause a denial of service Description: Multiple denial of service issues were addressed through improved memory handling. CVE-2017-7074: Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software ATS Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2017-13820: John Villamil, Doyensec Entry added October 31, 2017 Audio Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted QuickTime file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed through improved memory handling. CVE-2017-13807: Yangkang (@dnpushme) of Qihoo 360 Qex Team Entry added October 31, 2017 Captive Network Assistant Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: A local user may unknowingly send a password unencrypted over the network Description: The security state of the captive portal browser was not obvious. This issue was addressed with improved visibility of the captive portal browser security state. CVE-2017-7143: an anonymous researcher CFNetwork Proxies Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to cause a denial of service Description: Multiple denial of service issues were addressed through improved memory handling. CVE-2017-7083: Abhinav Bansal of Zscaler Inc. CFString Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization. CVE-2017-13821: Australian Cyber Security Centre a Australian Signals Directorate Entry added October 31, 2017 CoreAudio Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed by updating to Opus version 1.1.4. CVE-2017-0381: V.E.O (@VYSEa) of Mobile Threat Research Team, Trend Micro CoreText Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed through improved memory handling. CVE-2017-13825: Australian Cyber Security Centre a Australian Signals Directorate Entry added October 31, 2017 Directory Utility Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: A local attacker may be able to determine the Apple ID of the owner of the computer Description: A permissions issue existed in the handling of the Apple ID. This issue was addressed with improved access controls. CVE-2017-7138: an anonymous researcher file Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: Multiple issues in file Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 5.30. CVE-2017-7121: found by OSS-Fuzz CVE-2017-7122: found by OSS-Fuzz CVE-2017-7123: found by OSS-Fuzz CVE-2017-7124: found by OSS-Fuzz CVE-2017-7125: found by OSS-Fuzz CVE-2017-7126: found by OSS-Fuzz file Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Multiple issues in file Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 5.31. CVE-2017-13815 Entry added October 31, 2017 Fonts Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Rendering untrusted text may lead to spoofing Description: An inconsistent user interface issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2017-13828: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 fsck_msdos Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later 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-2017-13811: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 HelpViewer Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: A quarantined HTML file may execute arbitrary JavaScript cross-origin Description: A cross-site scripting issue existed in HelpViewer. This issue was addressed by removing the affected file. CVE-2017-13819: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 HFS Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later 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-2017-13830: Sergej Schumilo of Ruhr-University Bochum Entry added October 31, 2017 ImageIO Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved input validation. CVE-2017-13814: Australian Cyber Security Centre a Australian Signals Directorate Entry added October 31, 2017 ImageIO Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to a denial of service Description: An information disclosure issue existed in the processing of disk images. This issue was addressed through improved memory management. CVE-2017-13831: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 Installer Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: A malicious application may be able to access the FileVault unlock key Description: This issue was addressed by removing additional entitlements. CVE-2017-13837: Patrick Wardle of Synack Entry added October 31, 2017 IOFireWireFamily Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later 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-2017-7077: Brandon Azad IOFireWireFamily Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization. CVE-2017-7119: Xiaolong Bai, Min (Spark) Zheng of Alibaba Inc., Benjamin Gnahm (@mitp0sh) of PDX Kernel Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later 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-2017-7114: Alex Plaskett of MWR InfoSecurity Kernel Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: A local user may be able to leak sensitive user information Description: A permissions issue existed in kernel packet counters. This issue was addressed through improved permission validation. CVE-2017-13810: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 Kernel Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later 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 through improved input validation. CVE-2017-13817: Maxime Villard (m00nbsd) Entry added October 31, 2017 Kernel Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization. CVE-2017-13818: The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) CVE-2017-13836: an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher CVE-2017-13841: an anonymous researcher CVE-2017-13840: an anonymous researcher CVE-2017-13842: an anonymous researcher CVE-2017-13782: Kevin Backhouse of Semmle Ltd. Entry added October 31, 2017 Kernel Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later 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-2017-13843: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 Kernel Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Processing a malformed mach binary may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved validation. CVE-2017-13834: Maxime Villard (m00nbsd) Entry added October 31, 2017 kext tools Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges Description: A logic error in kext loading was addressed with improved state handling. CVE-2017-13827: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 libarchive Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Unpacking a maliciously crafted archive may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed through improved memory handling. CVE-2017-13813: found by OSS-Fuzz CVE-2017-13816: found by OSS-Fuzz Entry added October 31, 2017 libarchive Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Unpacking a maliciously crafted archive may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in libarchive. These issues were addressed through improved input validation. CVE-2017-13812: found by OSS-Fuzz Entry added October 31, 2017 libarchive Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization. CVE-2016-4736: Proteas of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team Entry added October 31, 2017 libc Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service Description: A resource exhaustion issue in glob() was addressed through an improved algorithm. CVE-2017-7086: Russ Cox of Google libc Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: An application may be able to cause a denial of service Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed through improved memory handling. CVE-2017-1000373 libexpat Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: Multiple issues in expat Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 2.2.1 CVE-2016-9063 CVE-2017-9233 Mail Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: The sender of an email may be able to determine the IP address of the recipient Description: Turning off "Load remote content in messages" did not apply to all mailboxes. This issue was addressed with improved setting propagation. CVE-2017-7141: an anonymous researcher Mail Drafts Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may be able to intercept mail contents Description: An encryption issue existed in the handling of mail drafts. This issue was addressed with improved handling of mail drafts meant to be sent encrypted. CVE-2017-7078: an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher ntp Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: Multiple issues in ntp Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 4.2.8p10 CVE-2017-6451: Cure53 CVE-2017-6452: Cure53 CVE-2017-6455: Cure53 CVE-2017-6458: Cure53 CVE-2017-6459: Cure53 CVE-2017-6460: Cure53 CVE-2017-6462: Cure53 CVE-2017-6463: Cure53 CVE-2017-6464: Cure53 CVE-2016-9042: Matthew Van Gundy of Cisco Open Scripting Architecture Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Decompiling an AppleScript with osadecompile may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2017-13824: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 PCRE Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Multiple issues in pcre Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 8.40. CVE-2017-13846 Entry added October 31, 2017 Postfix Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Multiple issues in Postfix Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 3.2.2. CVE-2017-13826: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 Quick Look Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization. CVE-2017-13822: Australian Cyber Security Centre a Australian Signals Directorate Entry added October 31, 2017 Quick Look Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted office document may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed through improved memory handling. CVE-2017-7132: Australian Cyber Security Centre a Australian Signals Directorate Entry added October 31, 2017 QuickTime Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization. CVE-2017-13823: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 Remote Management Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later 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-2017-13808: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 Sandbox Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later 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-2017-13838: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 Screen Lock Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: Application Firewall prompts may appear over Login Window Description: A window management issue was addressed through improved state management. CVE-2017-7082: Tim Kingman Security Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: A revoked certificate may be trusted Description: A certificate validation issue existed in the handling of revocation data. This issue was addressed through improved validation. CVE-2017-7080: Sven Driemecker of adesso mobile solutions gmbh, Rune Darrud (@theflyingcorpse) of BA|rum kommune, an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher Spotlight Available for: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and later Impact: Spotlight may display results for files not belonging to the user Description: An access issue existed in Spotlight. This issue was addressed through improved access restrictions. CVE-2017-13839: an anonymous researcher Entry added October 31, 2017 SQLite Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: Multiple issues in SQLite Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 3.19.3. CVE-2017-10989: found by OSS-Fuzz CVE-2017-7128: found by OSS-Fuzz CVE-2017-7129: found by OSS-Fuzz CVE-2017-7130: found by OSS-Fuzz SQLite Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later 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-2017-7127: an anonymous researcher WebKit Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: A malicious website may be able to track users in Safari private browsing mode Description: A permissions issue existed in the handling of web browser cookies. This issue was addressed with improved restrictions. CVE-2017-7144: an anonymous researcher zlib Available for: OS X Lion v10.8 and later Impact: Multiple issues in zlib Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to version 1.2.11. CVE-2016-9840 CVE-2016-9841 CVE-2016-9842 CVE-2016-9843 Installation note: macOS High Sierra 10.13 may be obtained from the Mac App Store or Apple's Software Downloads web site: https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ Information will also be posted to the Apple Security Updates web site: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222 This message is signed with Apple's Product Security PGP key, and details are available at: https://www.apple.com/support/security/pgp/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJdBAEBCgBHFiEEcuX4rtoRe4X62yWlg6PvjDRstEYFAln4u8MpHHByb2R1Y3Qt c2VjdXJpdHktbm9yZXBseUBsaXN0cy5hcHBsZS5jb20ACgkQg6PvjDRstEaV7BAA oPmo5pAA/HORVC3jl7tvStUpsUUiiez204FhuoVFsvHq0w7eYjsYDilzw7f6yveV e9Xhlbz7jhFpa1SXQhtiK5SSA1aJqhXIzZPSSf4ex/6qBZCSUrAZi1vC05TuQFi2 bvZ9N2mr3Mwd4GlxN7XZ6DLi3BqQPaKIavmuxOLkUSCpkwj9npS1oPDvMCP8DX4q goywFq4QOgvSJnohH/G8IGSm2Txy/IES68vvxdPRUi3IzjGM7E88QHkwKBDiqZRG ozuhx8Zs+cEh8yIzLO2UoTJe5gVgz1si7J4tgCPTT65r3Uf2sizkOMMdX8PHmCCi WTs3adVyJgC8nNql24cvPpJ4UM7bia0adzNf7cjTf7KKtVomIzR6IFaa+V737a+A jESOB5J0iy1oqzfGN8/zf724N+rc5jp/QejM6tTvcNuc807Z4jVpR3CEr+GkMENz Hq1Vr06gnBolmwnwlhCHujYwOpJXJ2xllQavNoe6r57XTYid1rjuRG5KXNWPlEgw GyoB8rTLY+BzLszUtrQlhh5QXa8WaQLg0uPJJDHH3DUM7jEXRBrk7nhrz4z2qq7S j1hlkhZbW2HuYg9URLhgYtkMgVjbTneZkWhEqER+AIbqFKdwTkuNgu5sHnWCrXG0 N+hmcqhXbgblWwiT0ma/I7Yn0b7O9g9stN88cL9cr3I= =887+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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THREAT TYPE

local

TYPE

information disclosure

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Apple

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2025-04-20T21:25:44.867000+00:00

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