Apple TV 7.0.3 Squashes 16 Security Vulnerabilities

Apple released Apple TV 7.0.3 Tuesday. Apple hasn't yet released patch notes for the update, but the company did send out security patch notes. Apple TV 7.0.3 squashes some 16 security bugs, including several that could allow the bad guys to take over your device.

You can download the update through your Apple TV settings.

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Apple's security patch notes for the update:


APPLE-SA-2015-01-27-1 Apple TV 7.0.3

Apple TV 7.0.3 is now available and addresses the following:

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: A maliciously crafted afc command may allow access to protected parts of the filesystem
Description: A vulnerability existed in the symbolic linking mechanism of afc. This issue was addressed by adding additional path checks.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4480 : TaiG Jailbreak Team

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An integer overflow existed in the handling of PDF files. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4481 : Felipe Andres Manzano of the Binamuse VRT, via the
iSIGHT Partners GVP Program

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: A local user may be able to execute unsigned code
Description: A state management issue existed in the handling of Mach-O executable files with overlapping segments. This issue was addressed through improved validation of segment sizes
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4455 : TaiG Jailbreak Team

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow existed in the handling of font files. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4483 : Apple

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted .dfont file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the handling of .dfont files. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4484 : Gaurav Baruah working with HP's Zero Day Initiative

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted XML file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow existed in the XML parser. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4485 : Apple

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A null pointer dereference existed in IOAcceleratorFamily's handling of resource lists. This issue was addressed by removing unneeded code.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4486 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A buffer overflow existed in IOHIDFamily. This issue was addressed through improved size validation.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4487 : TaiG Jailbreak Team

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A validation issue existed in IOHIDFamily's handling of resource queue metadata. This issue was addressed through improved validation of metadata.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4488 : Apple

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: A null pointer dereference existed in IOHIDFamily's handling of event queues. This issue was addressed through improved validation.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4489 : @beist

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: Maliciously crafted or compromised iOS applications may be able to determine addresses in the kernel
Description: An information disclosure issue existed in the handling of APIs related to kernel extensions. Responses containing an OSBundleMachOHeaders key may have included kernel addresses, which may aid in bypassing address space layout randomization protection. This issue was addressed by unsliding the addresses before returning them.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4491 : @PanguTeam, Stefan Esser

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: An issue existed in the kernel shared memory subsystem that allowed an attacker to write to memory that was intended to be read-only. This issue was addressed with stricter checking of shared
memory permissions.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4495 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: Maliciously crafted or compromised iOS applications may be able to determine addresses in the kernel
Description: The mach_port_kobject kernel interface leaked kernel addresses and heap permutation value, which may aid in bypassing address space layout randomization protection. This was addressed by disabling the mach_port_kobject interface in production configurations.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4496 : TaiG Jailbreak Team

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: A malicious, sandboxed app can compromise the networkd daemon
Description: Multiple type confusion issues existed in networkd's handling of interprocess communication. By sending a maliciously formatted message to networkd, it could be possible to execute arbitrary code as the networkd process. The issue is addressed through additional type checking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4492 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: Style sheets are loaded cross-origin which may allow for data exfiltration
Description: An SVG loaded in an img element could load a CSS file cross-origin. This issue was addressed through enhanced blocking of external CSS references in SVGs.
CVE-ID
CVE-2014-4465 : Rennie deGraaf of iSEC Partners

Apple TV
Available for: Apple TV 3rd generation and later
Impact: 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-2014-3192 : cloudfuzzer
CVE-2014-4459
CVE-2014-4466 : Apple
CVE-2014-4468 : Apple
CVE-2014-4469 : Apple
CVE-2014-4470 : Apple
CVE-2014-4471 : Apple
CVE-2014-4472 : Apple
CVE-2014-4473 : Apple
CVE-2014-4474 : Apple
CVE-2014-4475 : Apple
CVE-2014-4476 : Apple
CVE-2014-4477 : lokihardt@ASRT working with HP's Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2014-4479 : Apple