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OS X update for IOKit (CVE-2019-8606)

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OS X update for IOKit (CVE-2019-8606)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/14/2019
Created
05/15/2019
Added
05/14/2019
Modified
03/18/2020

Description

A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Mojave 10.14.5. A local user may be able to load unsigned kernel extensions.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-security-update-2019-003-high-sierra
  • apple-osx-upgrade-10_14_5

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