Alors que la nouvelle révision de Panther vient tout juste d'être proposée au téléchargement, voici qu'arrive une mise à jour de sécurité. Elle est valable autant pour Panther, que pour Jaguar.

Comme d'habitude, elle est disponible via le module de mise à jour des logiciels (5,3Mo).

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Vous pouvez aussi télécharger cette mise à jour directement sur le site d'Apple.
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Silicon.com avait publié un article concernant la découverte de 6 failles dans le format open source PNG . Dans le cas d'un fichier, cette faille est valable pour tous les systèmes. Apple a donc réagi assez rapidement pour corriger ce problème.



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Vous pouvez télécharger directement ce patch ici :





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Pour les détails en anglais, c'est ci-après :

Mac OS X 10.3.5

· libpng (Portable Network Graphics) Fixes CAN-2002-1363, CAN-2004-0421, CAN-2004-0597, CAN-2004-0598, CAN-2004-0599

Impact: Malicious PNG images can cause application crashes and could execute arbitrary code

Description: A number of buffer overflows, null pointer dereferences and integer overflows have been discovered in the reference library for reading and writing PNG images. These vulnerabilities have been corrected in libpng which is used by the CoreGraphics and AppKit frameworks in Mac OS X. After installing this update, applications that use the PNG image format via these frameworks will be protected against these flaws.

· Safari: Fixes CAN-2004-0743
Impact: In a special situation, navigation using the forward/backward buttons can re-send form data to a GET url.
Description: This is for a situation where a web form is sent to a server using a POST method which issues an HTTP redirect to a GET method url. Using the forward/backward buttons will cause Safari to re-POST the form data to the GET url. Safari has been modified so that in this situation forward/backward navigation will result in only a GET method.

· TCP/IP Networking: Fixes CAN-2004-0744
Impact: Maliciously crafted IP fragments can use too many system resources preventing normal network operation.
Description: The "Rose Attack" describes a specially constructed sequence of IP fragments designed to consume system resources. The TCP/IP implementation has been modified to limit the resources consumed and prevents this denial of service attack.

Security Update 2004-08-09 (Mac OS X 10.3.4 and Mac OS X 10.2.8)

· libpng (Portable Network Graphics)
Fixes CAN-2002-1363, CAN-2004-0421, CAN-2004-0597, CAN-2004-0598, CAN-2004-0599

Impact: Malicious PNG images can cause application crashes and could execute arbitrary code

Description: A number of buffer overflows, null pointer dereferences and integer overflows have been discovered in the reference library for reading and writing PNG images. These vulnerabilities have been corrected in libpng which is used by the CoreGraphics and AppKit frameworks in Mac OS X. After installing this update, applications that use the PNG image format via these frameworks will be protected against these flaws.