On 5th of December Apple released security updates to address vulnerabilities in macOS Mojave 10.14.2 , High Sierra and Sierra released and some of these vulnerabilities can be used by the attackers to take control of unpatched system. The below you can see the following vulnerabilities were fixed.
Happy patching!
Airport
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.1
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4303: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36)
AMD
Available for: macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.1
Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.
CVE-2018-4462: Lilang Wu and Moony Li of TrendMicro Mobile Security Research Team
Carbon Core
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.1
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-2018-4463: Maksymilian Arciemowicz (cxsecurity.com)
Disk Images
Available for: macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.1
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-2018-4465: Pangu Team
Intel Graphics Driver
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.1
Impact: A local user may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4434: Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
IOHIDFamily
Available for: macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
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-2018-4427: Pangu Team
Kernel
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.1
Impact: An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial of service attack
Description: A denial of service issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2018-4460: Kevin Backhouse of Semmle Security Research Team
Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.1
Impact: A local user may be able to read kernel memory
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4431: An independent security researcher has reported this vulnerability to Beyond Security’s SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program
Available for: macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.1
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-2018-4447: Juwei Lin(@panicaII) and Zhengyu Dong of TrendMicro Mobile Security Team
Available for: macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.1
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2018-4435: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero, Juwei Lin(@panicaII) and Junzhi Lu of TrendMicro Mobile Security Team
Available for: macOS Mojave 10.14.1
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4461: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
WindowServer
Available for: macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, macOS Mojave 10.14.1
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-2018-4449: Hanqing Zhao, Yufeng Ruan and Kun Yang of Chaitin Security Research Lab
CVE-2018-4450: Hanqing Zhao, Yufeng Ruan and Kun Yang of Chaitin Security Research Lab