In one of its biggest update days in memory, Apple patched 41 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X.
Beside Security Update 2007-008, the company also rolled out the long-anticipated (and likely last) update for Tiger, quashed 10 bugs in the Windows version of Safari and upgraded a slew of other applications.
Only an update to iPhoto, one of the Apple-branded applications bundled with Macs, is relevant to users running Leopard, the new operating system introduced three weeks ago.
Both Security Update 2007-008 and the update to Mac OS X 10.4.11 include the 41 fixes, 15 of which could be considered critical by virtue of Apple’s designating them capable of “arbitrary code execution”. The more than two dozen remaining patches fixed flaws that, among others, could crash the system or applications, or let hackers steal information or look at files on the hard drive. Many of the vulnerabilities were in the third-party components included with Apple’s operating system.
Apple has patched more than 150 vulnerabilities in the eight security updates it has issued so far during 2007.
Resources:
> Apple downloads
(Source: Computerworld)
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