Security Details for Apple AirPort Base Station Firmware Updates

2004–09January 6, 2006Bill FoxMac OS
As we noted yesterday, Apple released firmware updates for the AirPort Extreme and Express Base Stations, AirPort Express Firmware Update 6.3 and AirPort Extreme Firmware Update 5.7. According to Apple, each update provides a security enhancement for the following issue:

CVE-ID: CVE-2005-3714

Impact: AirPort network interface becomes unresponsive

Description: A malicious network attacker that can generate specially
crafted packets may be able to cause an AirPort base station's
network interface to stop responding normally, resulting in a
denial-of-service. This update addresses the issue by discarding
the malformed packets. Credit to Michael Zanetta of NETwork Security
Consortium for reporting this issue.

Our AirPort networks have been running without issue after being updated on Wednesday. [Bill Fox]



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