Multiple Apple security updates

Number: AV16-138
Date: 1 September 2016 

Purpose

The purpose of this advisory is to bring attention to multiple Apple security updates for OS X El Capitan, OS X Yosemite and Safari.

Assessment

Apple has released the following support articles:
HT207130 - Security Update 2016-001 El Capitan and Security Update 2016-005 Yosemite
HT207131 - Safari 9.1.3

These updates address multiple vulnerabilities, including arbitrary remote code execution.

CVE References: CVE-2016-4654, CVE-2016-4655, CVE-2016-4656

Suggested Action

CCIRC recommends that owner/operators test and deploy the vendor released updates or workarounds to affected platforms referred to in Apple Support Articles HT207130 and HT207131.

References:

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT207130 
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT207131

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