Apple EFI vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-3693 and CVE-2015-3692

From the security-announce@lists.apple.com announce list, Apple has an EFI update for multiple systems, available from the App Store. Two CVEs are listed:

APPLE-SA-2015-06-30-3 Mac EFI Security Update 2015-001

Mac EFI Security Update 2015-001 is now available and addresses the following:

EFI
Available for:  OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5
Impact:  A malicious application with root privileges may be able to modify EFI flash memory
Description:  An insufficient locking issue existed with EFI flash when resuming from sleep states. This issue was addressed through improved locking.
CVE-ID
CVE-2015-3692 : Trammell Hudson of Two Sigma Investments, Xeno Kovah and Corey Kallenberg of LegbaCore LLC, Pedro Vilaca

EFI
Available for:  OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5
Impact:  A malicious application may induce memory corruption to escalate privileges
Description:  A disturbance error, also known as Rowhammer, exists with some DDR3 RAM that could have led to memory corruption. This issue was mitigated by increasing memory refresh rates.
CVE-ID
CVE-2015-3693 : Mark Seaborn and Thomas Dullien of Google, working from original research by Yoongu Kim et al (2014)

More Information:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204934
https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/security-announce/

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