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RETIRED: Apple Mac OS X 2008-002 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

Apple Mac OS X is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities.

These issues affect Mac OS X and various applications, including AFP Client, AFP Server, AppKit, Application Firewall, CoreFoundation, CoreServices, CUPS, Foundation, Help Viewer, Image Raw, libc, mDNSResponder, notifyd, pax archive utility, Podcast Producer, Preview, Printing, System Configuration, UDF, and Wiki Server.

Attackers may exploit these issues to execute arbitrary code, trigger denial-of-service conditions, escalate privileges, and potentially compromise vulnerable computers.

These issues affect Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11, 10.4.11 Server, 10.5.2, 10.5.2 Server and earlier.

NOTE: This BID is being retired. The following individual records have been created to fully document all the vulnerabilities that were described in this BID:

28320 Apple Mac OS X AFP Client 'afp://' URI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2008-0044.
28323 Apple Mac OS X AFP Server Cross-Realm Authentication Bypass Vulnerability CVE-2008-0994
28388 Apple Mac OS X AppKit NSDocument API's Stack Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2008-0048
28340 Apple Mac OS X AppKit Bootstrap Namespace Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2008-0049
28358 Apple Mac OS X AppKit Legacy Serialization Kit Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities CVE-2008-0057
28364 Apple Mac OS X AppKit PPD File Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2008-0997
28368 Apple Mac OS X Application Firewall German Translation Insecure Configuration Weakness CVE-2008-0046
28375 Apple Mac OS X CoreFoundation Time Zone Data Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2008-0051
28384 Apple Mac OS X CoreServices '.ief' Files Security Policy Violation Weakness CVE-2008-0052
28334 CUPS Multiple Unspecified Input Validation Vulnerabilities
28341 Apple Mac OS X Foundation 'NSSelectorFromString' Input Validation Vulnerability
28343 Apple Mac OS X Foundation NSFileManager Insecure Directory Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
28357 Apple Mac OS X Foundation 'NSFileManager' Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
28359 Apple Mac OS X Foundation 'NSURLConnection' Cache Management Race Condition Security Vulnerability
28363 Apple Mac OS X Image RAW Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
28367 Apple Mac OS X Foundation 'NSXML' XML File Processing Race Condition Security Vulnerability
28371 Apple Mac OS X Help Viewer Remote Applescript Code Execution Vulnerability
28374 Apple Mac OS X libc 'strnstr(3)' Off-By-One Denial of Service Vulnerability
28387 Apple Mac OS X Printing To PDF Insecure Encryption Weakness
28386 Apple Mac OS X Preview PDF Insecure Encryption Weakness
28389 Apple Mac OS X Universal Disc Format Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
28385 Apple Mac OS X NetCfgTool Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
28365 Apple Mac OS X pax Archive Utility Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
28344 Apple Mac OS X Authenticated Print Queue Information Disclosure Vulnerability
28345 Apple Mac OS X 'notifyd' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
28372 Apple Mac OS X Podcast Producer Podcast Capture Information Disclosure Vulnerability
28339 Apple Mac OS X mDNSResponderHelper Local Format String Vulnerability