TITLE:
Apple Airport Extreme / Time Capsule Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34105

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34105/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple Airport Extreme and
Time Capsule, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
spoofing attacks, disclose potentially sensitive information, or to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An error exists in the implementation of the Neighbor Discovery
protocol when processing Neighbor Discovery messages.

For more information:
SA32112

2) An unspecified error exists in the handling of PPPoE discovery
packets. which can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds memory
access error by sending a specially crafted PPPoE discovery packet.

3) An error exists in the handling of incoming ICMPv6 "Packet Too
Big" messages, which can be exploited to shutdown the device.

This is related to:
SA31745

SOLUTION:
Update to firmware version 7.4.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
HT3467:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3467

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Police built a massive cordon around anti-government protesters occupying Thailand's main airport Saturday, raising fears of an imminent confrontation in a standoff that has disrupted the country's economy and the travel industry worldwide.

About 2,000 policemen were deployed around Suvarnabhumi international airport, where protesters calling themselves the People's Alliance for Democracy have camped out since late Tuesday, forcing the halt of all flights.

With no sign of the standoff easing, the airport authority said Suvarnabhumi will remain closed at least until Monday evening.

The protesters also have occupied Bangkok's domestic airport and the prime minister's office compound, virtually paralyzing the government in their campaign to force its resignation.

The confrontation, severing the capital from civilian air traffic, has taken a heavy toll on Thailand's economy and reputation. According to Thai media reports some 100,000 tourists are stranded, and schedules of airlines around the world have been disrupted.

So far security forces have only issued a warning to the protesters to leave and refrained from using force. The protesters say they will not leave until the government of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat resigns.

But it appears the government's patience is wearing thin.


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United Parcel Service Inc. is canceling a twice-daily air stop in the central Illinois city of Decatur.

Atlanta-based UPS, the world's largest package delivery company, announced the decision Wednesday. A UPS plane, a Boeing 757, has loaded and unloaded cargo at the Decatur Airport on its way from Louisville, Kentucky, to Rockford. The stops will end in early February.

Bill Clevenger is executive director of the Decatur Park District, which runs the airport. He says the news is a blow to the airport and the community.

UPS spokesman Mike Mangeot says the decision results from the uncertain and declining global economy.

UPS employs about 300 people in the Decatur area. Fourteen affected workers will be offered other UPS jobs.

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Protesters Flood Thailand's Main Airport, Shutting Down Flights
Flights at Bangkok's main international airport were canceled after anti-government protesters stormed the building, stranding thousands of travelers.
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BANGKOK, Thailand, Nov. 25 -- Activists trying to bring down  Thailand's government seized key parts of the capital's main airport Tuesday, forcing authorities to cancel all flights and dealing another blow to the country's reeling tourist industry.

"We want to seize the airport to show the media that the prime minister cannot control anything in Thailand," Suwan Kansanoh, a retired government official who was among the  protesters, told journalists by phone.

The  airport raid was the culmination of two days of demonstrations billed by the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy as the "final mass rally" to oust the "killer government."

The government, led by Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, has refused to resign, insisting that the overwhelming mandate it won in elections held at the end of last year still stands.

At the core of the dispute lies the legacy of Thaksin Shinawatra, the controversial telecommunications billionaire and former prime minister who was removed from office in a military coup in 2006 amid allegations of corruption and cronyism.

Thaksin inspires visceral hatred among PAD supporters, who believe that the current government is his proxy. Somchai is the former prime minister's brother-in-law.

But as last year's elections proved, Thaksin and his allies still have the support of Thailand's rural poor -- a constituency he and his successors have courted with cheap health care and subsidized loans.

Although PAD leaders had made bold predictions about this week's demonstrations, the turnout, at about 20,000 people, has been smaller than expected, and a threatened strike by state enterprise workers caused little disruption. Political analysts say that despite their success in disrupting operations at the airport, the movement is struggling to maintain momentum.

"The reality is that they can't raise the numbers on the streets to force anybody to do anything," said Chris Baker, a Bangkok-based political scientist who has written a number of books on Thailand's troubles.

The past two days had been mostly peaceful. But there was an outbreak of violence on Tuesday night when PAD guards fired on opponents. The shooters were apparently responding to pro-government protesters who allegedly threw stones at a car carrying PAD members returning from another rally. Local media reported that 11 people were injured.

Although it has managed to paralyze the political process for the past six months, the anti-government PAD has had little success in articulating an alternative vision to end Thailand's political stalemate.

Its platform of so-called "new politics" -- including a suggestion of rolling back democratic representation to make 70 percent of parliament appointed rather than elected --has found little traction among the wider population.

Baker said the group, which has a largely middle-class, urban support base, has started to fall victim to its own internal contradictions. Unable to win at the ballot box, or frighten the government into resigning, Baker said the group has been reduced to trying to provoke the sort of violence that would force the army to stage a coup. But that, in turn, is alienating its supporters.

"The people who support them are the sort of people who fear disorder above all things, and they are starting to worry," he said.

Gen. Anupong Paojinda, the army chief, said there would be no coup, even if violence broke out.

"The armed forces have agreed that a coup cannot solve our country's problems, and we will try to weather the current situation and pass this critical time," Anupong told reporters in Bangkok.

Over the past two days, the police have taken a deliberately nonconfrontational line, falling back as the PAD protesters, many of them armed with iron bars, wooden clubs or sling shots, advanced. The police tactics not only minimized the possibility of clashes, they also allowed the protesters to spread so widely that the demonstration became diffuse and directionless.

There are also economic pressures. Thailand is starting to feel the pain of the global slowdown, and many here worry that political paralysis is doing lasting damage to the country's ability to counter the mounting economic threat. The closure of Bangkok's new Suvarnabhumi Airport will be another blow to a tourist industry already badly damaged by previous violent clashes between protesters and police.




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CHINA-ECONOMY/AIRPORTS:China to spend $59 bln on airports by end-2010

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State television on Saturday quoted Li Jiaxiang, director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), as saying the money would be used to build 50 new airports and to upgrade or move 90 others.

A statement on CAAC's website, www.caac.gov.cn, gives an even higher total. It says the agency will invest 200 billion yuan in new and existing airports next year and 250 billion yuan in 2010.

China's spending departments have rushed out ambitious plans since the State Council, or cabinet, announced a 4 trillion yuan stimulus plan on Sunday to boost domestic demand.

The central government will finance 30 percent of the package directly and hopes to mobilise the remaining funds from local governments, banks and companies.

It aims to invest 100 billion yuan of the total by the end of this year, of which 34 billion yuan will be spent on rural infrastructure and 28 billion on railways and airports. ($1=6.823 yuan) (Reporting by Alan Wheatley; Editing by Jan Dahinten)

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