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09-23-2006, 12:01 PM
http://www.betanews.com/article/Apple_Plugs_WiFi_Security_Holes/1158951254
By Nate Mook, BetaNews
September 22, 2006, 2:54 PM
Apple on Friday issued a security update for Mac OS X that plugs a trio of holes in its wireless network subsystem, which could potentially allow an attacker to take control of an affected system. All three of the patches involve Mac OS X version 10.4, while one is also for version 10.3.
"Attackers on the wireless network may cause system crashes, privilege elevation, or arbitrary code execution," Apple says of two of the fixes. One involves a heap overflow the AirPort wireless driver's handling of scan cache updates. The other covers two stack buffer overflows in the AirPort wireless driver's handling of malformed frames. ...
By Nate Mook, BetaNews
September 22, 2006, 2:54 PM
Apple on Friday issued a security update for Mac OS X that plugs a trio of holes in its wireless network subsystem, which could potentially allow an attacker to take control of an affected system. All three of the patches involve Mac OS X version 10.4, while one is also for version 10.3.
"Attackers on the wireless network may cause system crashes, privilege elevation, or arbitrary code execution," Apple says of two of the fixes. One involves a heap overflow the AirPort wireless driver's handling of scan cache updates. The other covers two stack buffer overflows in the AirPort wireless driver's handling of malformed frames. ...