Apple pushed out a bushel of patches late last week to fix at least 18 security vulnerabilities in its implementation of Java for Mac users. Then on Monday, the company issued a large update that plugged at least 40 security holes in different versions of its OS X operating system. Another standalone patch eliminates a single security flaw in Safari 3 Beta for Windows. The Java update applies to Mac systems running OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and earlier versions. Apple says none of the vulnerabilities patched in the Java roll-up are present in OS X 10.5 (Leopard). However, a fair number of the fixes in the patch batch for OS X also apply to Leopard. Some of the security vulnerabilities included in the 80 megabyte Java package were fixed by Java maker Sun Microsystems nearly a year ago. For Apple users, these are not trivial flaws: Apple says some [...]
Posted on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 at 6:28 am and under category News, Spyware.
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