Apple today released a minor software update for the 3rd generation of its set-top box. Apart from the usual “general performance and stability improvements”, Apple TV 7.0.2 software update also contains the following security fixes:

• Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in WebKit. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

• Impact: A local user may be able to execute unsigned code.

Description: A state management issue existed in the handling of Mach-O executable files with overlapping segments. This issue was addressed through improved validation of segment sizes.

• Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.

Description: A validation issue existed in the handling of certain metadata fields of IOSharedDataQueue objects. This issue was addressed through relocation of the metadata.

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