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Gross looking worm right? Well imagine if that gross looking "worm" got into your Mac OS X? Not good. Well, hopefully you won't have to worry about such a situation with the latest security update for the Mac OS X that Apple released today.
The update, dubbed Security Update 2010-005, is aiming to put a fixin' to a critical PDF vulnerability, by addressing a "heap buffer overflow" in how CoreGraphics manages PDF files. That vulnerability could give the go ahead to an "unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution" via a malicious PDF file.
Whether or not this is following in the footsteps of the PDF vulnerability on iOS 4 is unknown.
Additionally, Security Update 2010-005 also fixes a "stack buffer overflow" which would allow arbitrary code execution via a malicious embedded font. The PDF and font vulnerabilities were taken care of thanks to "improved bounds checking."
The update also contained various routine fixes for network security flaws.
Mac OS X Server 10.5, Mac OS X 10.5.8, Mac OS X Server 10.6, and Mac OS X 10.6.4 were impacted by the update.
via AppleInsider
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