Apple Boot Camp 'applemnt. syns' Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
Apple Boot amp; Camp 5.1
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 65522
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2014-1253

Apple Boot Camp is a Windows-supported software (driver ).

Boot Camp 5.1 version AppleMNT. A boundary error exists when the sys Driver parses the executable file that can be transplanted. If an executable file with a malformed packet header is loaded, the Boot Camp driver may damage the kernel memory.

<* Source: MJ0011 (dlrow1991@ymail.com)

Link: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6126
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Apple
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Apple has released a Security Bulletin (HT6126) and corresponding patches for this:
HT6126: About the security content of Boot Camp 5.1
Link: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6126