About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.8
This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.8.
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macOS Monterey 12.6.8
Released July 24, 2023
Accessibility
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information
Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries.
CVE-2023-40442: Nick Brook
Entry added September 8, 2023
Apple Neural Engine
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2023-34425: pattern-f (@pattern_F_) of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
Entry added July 27, 2023
AppSandbox
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2023-32364: Gergely Kalman (@gergely_kalman)
Entry added July 27, 2023
Assets
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system
Description: This issue was addressed with improved data protection.
CVE-2023-35983: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
CFNetwork
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information
Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries.
CVE-2023-40392: Wojciech Regula of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog)
Entry added September 8, 2023
CUPS
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: A user in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive information
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2023-34241: Sei K.
Entry added July 27, 2023
curl
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: Multiple issues in curl
Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating curl.
CVE-2023-28319
CVE-2023-28320
CVE-2023-28321
CVE-2023-28322
Find My
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2023-32416: Wojciech Regula of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog)
FontParser
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: Processing a font file may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7.1.
Description: The issue was addressed with improved handling of caches.
CVE-2023-41990: Apple, Valentin Pashkov, Mikhail Vinogradov, Georgy Kucherin (@kucher1n), Leonid Bezvershenko (@bzvr_), and Boris Larin (@oct0xor) of Kaspersky
Entry added September 8, 2023
Grapher
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: Processing a file may lead to unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2023-36854: Bool of YunShangHuaAn(云上华安)
CVE-2023-32418: Bool of YunShangHuaAn(云上华安)
Kernel
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: A remote user may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2023-38603: Zweig of Kunlun Lab
Entry added July 27, 2023
Kernel
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: A remote user may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2023-38590: Zweig of Kunlun Lab
Entry added July 27, 2023
Kernel
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2023-38598: Mohamed GHANNAM (@_simo36)
Entry added July 27, 2023
Kernel
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2023-36495: 香农的三蹦子 of Pangu Lab
Entry added July 27, 2023
Kernel
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2023-37285: Arsenii Kostromin (0x3c3e)
Entry added July 27, 2023
Kernel
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2023-38604: an anonymous researcher
Entry added July 27, 2023
Kernel
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2023-32381: an anonymous researcher
CVE-2023-32433: Zweig of Kunlun Lab
CVE-2023-35993: Kaitao Xie and Xiaolong Bai of Alibaba Group
Kernel
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to modify sensitive kernel state. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7.1.
Description: This issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2023-38606: Valentin Pashkov, Mikhail Vinogradov, Georgy Kucherin (@kucher1n), Leonid Bezvershenko (@bzvr_), and Boris Larin (@oct0xor) of Kaspersky
Kernel
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2023-32441: Peter Nguyễn Vũ Hoàng (@peternguyen14) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.
Kernel
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: A remote user may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2023-38603: Zweig of Kunlun Lab
Entry added December 22, 2023
libxpc
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2023-38565: Zhipeng Huo (@R3dF09) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab (xlab.tencent.com)
libxpc
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2023-38593: Noah Roskin-Frazee
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: A S/MIME encrypted email may be inadvertently sent unencrypted
Description: This issue was addressed with improved state management of S/MIME encrypted emails.
CVE-2023-40440: Taavi Eomäe from Zone Media OÜ
Entry added September 8, 2023
Music
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences
Description: This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks.
CVE-2023-38571: Gergely Kalman (@gergely_kalman)
Entry added July 27, 2023
Model I/O
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: Processing a 3D model may result in disclosure of process memory
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2023-38421: Mickey Jin (@patch1t), and Michael DePlante (@izobashi) of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2023-38258: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
Entry updated July 27, 2023
Model I/O
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: Processing an image may result in disclosure of process memory
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2023-1916
Entry added December 22, 2023
ncurses
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may cause unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2023-29491: Jonathan Bar Or of Microsoft, Emanuele Cozzi of Microsoft, and Michael Pearse of Microsoft
Entry added September 8, 2023
Net-SNMP
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system
Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2023-38601: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Offensive Security
Entry added July 27, 2023
NSSpellChecker
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2023-32444: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
Entry added July 27, 2023
OpenLDAP
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: A remote user may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2023-2953: Sandipan Roy
OpenSSH
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to access SSH passphrases
Description: The issue was addressed with additional restrictions on the observability of app states.
CVE-2023-42829: James Duffy (mangoSecure)
Entry added December 22, 2023
PackageKit
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2023-38259: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
PackageKit
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2023-38602: Arsenii Kostromin (0x3c3e)
Security
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to fingerprint the user
Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2023-42831: James Duffy (mangoSecure)
Entry added December 22, 2023
Shortcuts
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: A shortcut may be able to modify sensitive Shortcuts app settings
Description: An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.
CVE-2023-32442: an anonymous researcher
sips
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: Processing a file may lead to a denial-of-service or potentially disclose memory contents
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2023-32443: David Hoyt of Hoyt LLC
Software Update
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.
CVE-2023-42832: Arsenii Kostromin (0x3c3e)
Entry added December 22, 2023
SQLite
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences
Description: This issue was addressed by adding additional SQLite logging restrictions.
CVE-2023-32422: Gergely Kalman (@gergely_kalman), and Wojciech Regula of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog)
Entry added September 8, 2023
SystemMigration
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2023-32429: Wenchao Li and Xiaolong Bai of Hangzhou Orange Shield Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Entry added July 27, 2023
tcpdump
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to execute arbitrary code
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2023-1801
Entry added December 22, 2023
Vim
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: Multiple issues in Vim
Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating Vim.
CVE-2023-2426
CVE-2023-2609
CVE-2023-2610
Entry added December 22, 2023
Weather
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: An app may be able to determine a user’s current location
Description: This issue was addressed with improved redaction of sensitive information.
CVE-2023-38605: Adam M.
Entry added September 8, 2023
Additional recognition
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