About the security content of macOS Server 5.3

This document describes the security content of macOS Server 5.3.

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macOS Server 5.3

Released March 27, 2017

Profile Manager

Available for: macOS 10.12.4 and later

Impact: A remote user may be able to cause a denial-of-service

Description: A crafted request may cause a global cache to grow indefinitely, leading to a denial-of-service. This was addressed by not caching unknown MIME types.

CVE-2016-0751

Web Server

Available for: macOS 10.12.4 and later

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service against the HTTP server via partial HTTP requests

Description: This issue was addressed by adding mod_reqtimeout.

CVE-2007-6750

Wiki Server

Available for: macOS 10.12.4 and later

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to enumerate users

Description: An access issue was addressed through improved permissions checking.

CVE-2017-2382: Maris Kocins of SEMTEXX LTD

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Published Date: March 28, 2017