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Released October 25, 2023
CoreAnimation
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: An app may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2023-40449: Tomi Tokics (@tomitokics) of iTomsn0w
FileProvider
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: An app may be able to cause a denial-of-service to Endpoint Security clients
Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2023-42854: Noah Roskin-Frazee and Prof. J. (ZeroClicks.ai Lab)
Find My
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information
Description: The issue was addressed with improved handling of caches.
CVE-2023-40413: Adam M.
Foundation
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: A website may be able to access sensitive user data when resolving symlinks
Description: This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks.
CVE-2023-42844: Ron Masas of BreakPoint.SH
Image Capture
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: An app may be able to access protected user data
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2023-41077: Mickey Jin (@patch4t)
ImageIO
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: Processing an image may result in disclosure of process memory
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2023-40416: JZ
IOTextEncryptionFamily
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2023-40423: an anonymous researcher
iperf3
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: A remote user may be able to cause unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2023-38403
Kernel
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: An attacker that has already achieved kernel code execution may be able to bypass kernel memory mitigations
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2023-42849: Linus Henze of Pinauten GmbH (pinauten.de)
Model I/O
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: Processing a file may lead to unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2023-42856: Michael DePlante (@izobashi) of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
Passkeys
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: An attacker may be able to access passkeys without authentication
Description: The issue was addressed with additional permissions checks.
CVE-2023-40401: an anonymous researcher, weize she
Pro Res
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2023-42841: Mingxuan Yang (@PPPF00L), happybabywu and Guang Gong of 360 Vulnerability Research Institute
talagent
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2023-40421: Noah Roskin-Frazee and Prof. J. (ZeroClicks.ai Lab)
Weather
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries.
CVE-2023-41254: Cristian Dinca of "Tudor Vianu" National High School of Computer Science, Romania
WindowServer
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: A website may be able to access the microphone without the microphone use indicator being shown
Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2023-41975: an anonymous researcher
GPU Drivers
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
libarchive
We would like to acknowledge Bahaa Naamneh for their assistance.
libxml2
We would like to acknowledge OSS-Fuzz, Ned Williamson of Google Project Zero for their assistance.
Vulmon