Aggiornamenti di sicurezza per Safari 8.0.6, Safari 7.1.6 e Safari 6.2.6

Nelle ultime ore Apple ha rilasciato aggiornamenti per quanto attiene il suo browser Safari utilizzato dai possessori di Mac con sistema operativi OS X Yosemite, Mavericks, e Mountain Lion. L’aggiornamento non aggiunge nuove funzionalità, ma risolvere alcuni importanti problemi di sicurezza nel motore WebKit.

Qui di seguito possiamo vedere l’estratto dal sito web Apple che mostra il changelog completo di queste nuove versioni di Safari 8.0.6, Safari 7.1.6 e Safari 6.2.6 per gli utenti possessori di Mac:

• WebKitAvailable for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, and OS X Yosemite v10.10.3Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

  Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in WebKit. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-1152 : Apple

  CVE-2015-1153 : Apple

  CVE-2015-1154 : Apple

• WebKit HistoryAvailable for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, and OS X Yosemite v10.10.3Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may compromise user information on the filesystem

  Description: A state management issue existed in Safari that allowed unprivileged origins to access contents on the filesystem. This issue was addressed through improved state management.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-1155 : Joe Vennix of Rapid7 Inc. working with HP’s Zero Day Initiative

• WebKit Page LoadingAvailable for: OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, and OS X Yosemite v10.10.3Impact: Visiting a malicious website by clicking a link may lead to user interface spoofing

  Description: An issue existed in the handling of the rel attribute in anchor elements. Target objects could get unauthorized access to link objects. This issue was addressed through improved link type adherence.

  CVE-ID

  CVE-2015-1156 : Zachary Durber of Moodle

Gli aggiornamenti come sempre sono disponibili in form gratuita direttamente all’interno del Mac App Store.