October 15, 2024 at 02:27PM
Apple has released updates for Safari 17.5 on macOS Monterey and Ventura to address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-27808, CVE-2024-27830, etc.), primarily focusing on integer overflow and improved input validation. These issues could lead to arbitrary code execution and user fingerprinting from malicious web content.
### Meeting Takeaways
**Apple ID**: 120896
**Release Date**: May 13, 2024
**Affected Product**: Safari 17.5
**Update Availability**: For macOS Monterey and macOS Ventura
#### Key Security Vulnerabilities and Details:
1. **CVE-2024-27844, CVE-2024-27834, CVE-2024-27838, CVE-2024-27808, CVE-2024-27850, CVE-2024-27833**
– **Description**: Integer overflow addressed with improved input validation.
– **Impact**: May lead to arbitrary code execution through processing maliciously crafted web content.
2. **CVE-2024-27851**
– **Description**: Issue addressed with improved bounds checks.
– **Impact**: May lead to arbitrary code execution through processing maliciously crafted web content.
3. **CVE-2024-27830**
– **Description**: Issue addressed through improved state management.
– **Impact**: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user.
4. **CVE-2024-27820**
– **Description**: Issue addressed with improved memory handling.
– **Impact**: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.
### Summary
– Multiple vulnerabilities in Safari 17.5 were addressed, primarily relating to integer overflow and input validation, which could allow for arbitrary code execution and user fingerprinting.
– Updates are available for affected macOS versions (Monterey and Ventura).
### Action Items
– Ensure that the updates are applied to all affected systems to mitigate risks associated with these vulnerabilities.