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TITLE:
Apple Xcode Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27441

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27441/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Apple Xcode 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/10144/

DESCRIPTION:
Apple has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Apple Xcode, which can
be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges
and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and
potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to the inclusion of vulnerable
versions of Binutils and OpenBase SQL.

For more information:
SA20188
SA22390

SOLUTION:
Update to Apple Xcode Developer Tools 2.5.
http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/

Download file:  "xcode25_8m2558_developerdvd.dmg"
SHA-1 digest:  30884704b0a4b098f02ccbb753958cd5331b8982

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Oct/msg00001.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA20188:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20188/

SA22390:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22390/

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