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TITLE:
Apple Mac OS X Apple Type Services Indexing Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39426

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39426/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Apple Mac OS X, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an indexing error in Apple Type
Services within the "TType1ParsingContext::SpecialEncoding()" method
in libFontParser.dylib when parsing embedded fonts. This can be
exploited to corrupt memory e.g. via a specially crafted PDF file
opened in Preview.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in Mac OS X Server 10.5, Mac OS X 10.5,
Mac OS X 10.6, and Mac OS X Server 10.6.

SOLUTION:
Apply Security Update 2010-003.

Security Update 2010-003 (Snow Leopard):
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1029

Security Update 2010-003 (Leopard-Client):
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1027

Security Update 2010-003 (Leopard-Server):
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1028

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Charlie Miller, reported via ZDI.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4131

ZDI:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-076/

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