Apple Security Advisory 2019-10-29-8 - watchOS 6 addresses buffer overflow, code execution, cross site scripting, and denial of service vulnerabilities.
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APPLE-SA-2019-10-29-8 Additional information
for APPLE-SA-2019-9-26-5 watchOS 6
watchOS 6 addresses the following:
Audio
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to
arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved
state management.
CVE-2019-8706: Yu Zhou of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab
Entry added October 29, 2019
CFNetwork
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to a
cross site scripting attack
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2019-8753: Łukasz Pilorz of Standard Chartered GBS Poland
Entry added October 29, 2019
CoreAudio
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted movie may result in the
disclosure of process memory
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved
validation.
CVE-2019-8705: riusksk of VulWar Corp working with Trend Micro's Zero
Day Initiative
Entry added October 29, 2019
CoreCrypto
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Processing a large input may lead to a denial of service
Description: A denial of service issue was addressed with improved
input validation.
CVE-2019-8741: Nicky Mouha of NIST
Entry added October 29, 2019
Foundation
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected application
termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input
validation.
CVE-2019-8641: Samuel Groß and Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project
Zero
CVE-2019-8746: Natalie Silvanovich and Samuel Groß of Google Project
Zero
Entry added October 29, 2019
IOUSBDeviceFamily
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with
kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved
memory handling.
CVE-2019-8718: Joshua Hill and Sem Voigtländer
Entry added October 29, 2019
Kernel
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with
kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption vulnerability was addressed with
improved locking.
CVE-2019-8740: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36)
Entry added October 29, 2019
Kernel
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A local app may be able to read a persistent account
identifier
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved logic.
CVE-2019-8809: Apple
Entry added October 29, 2019
Kernel
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with
kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved
memory handling.
CVE-2019-8717: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero
Entry added October 29, 2019
Kernel
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with
system privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved
memory handling.
CVE-2019-8712: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36)
Entry added October 29, 2019
Kernel
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel
memory layout
Description: A memory corruption issue existed in the handling of
IPv6 packets. This issue was addressed with improved memory
management.
CVE-2019-8744: Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team
Entry added October 29, 2019
Kernel
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with
kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved
state management.
CVE-2019-8709: derrek (@derrekr6)
[confirmed]derrek (@derrekr6)
Entry added October 29, 2019
libxml2
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Multiple issues in libxml2
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with
improved input validation.
CVE-2019-8749: found by OSS-Fuzz
CVE-2019-8756: found by OSS-Fuzz
Entry added October 29, 2019
mDNSResponder
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: An attacker in physical proximity may be able to passively
observe device names in AWDL communications
Description: This issue was resolved by replacing device names with a
random identifier.
CVE-2019-8799: David Kreitschmann and Milan Stute of Secure Mobile
Networking Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt
Entry added October 29, 2019
UIFoundation
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted text file may lead to
arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds
checking.
CVE-2019-8745: riusksk of VulWar Corp working with Trend Micro's Zero
Day Initiative
Entry added October 29, 2019
WebKit
Available for: Apple Watch Series 3 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to
arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with
improved memory handling.
CVE-2019-8710: found by OSS-Fuzz
CVE-2019-8728: Junho Jang of LINE Security Team and Hanul Choi of
ABLY Corporation
CVE-2019-8734: found by OSS-Fuzz
CVE-2019-8751: Dongzhuo Zhao working with ADLab of Venustech
CVE-2019-8752: Dongzhuo Zhao working with ADLab of Venustech
CVE-2019-8773: found by OSS-Fuzz
Additional recognition
Audio
We would like to acknowledge riusksk of VulWar Corp working with
Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative for their assistance.
Entry added October 29, 2019
boringssl
We would like to acknowledge Thijs Alkemade (@xnyhps) of Computest
for their assistance.
HomeKit
We would like to acknowledge Tian Zhang for their assistance.
Kernel
We would like to acknowledge Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero for
their assistance.
mDNSResponder
We would like to acknowledge Gregor Lang of e.solutions GmbH for
their assistance.
Profiles
We would like to acknowledge Erik Johnson of Vernon Hills High School
and James Seeley (@Code4iOS) of Shriver Job Corps for their
assistance.
Safari
We would like to acknowledge Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit) of
TurkishKit for their assistance.
WebKit
We would like to acknowledge MinJeong Kim of Information Security
Lab, Chungnam National University, JaeCheol Ryou of the Information
Security Lab, Chungnam National University in South Korea and cc
working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative for their assistance.
Installation note:
Instructions on how to update your Apple Watch software are
available at https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204641
To check the version on your Apple Watch, open the Apple Watch app
on your iPhone and select "My Watch > General > About".
Alternatively, on your watch, select "My Watch > General > About".
Information will also be posted to the Apple Security Updates
web site: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222
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