Apple Releases Security Update 2002-08-20

Posted by pudge on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @12:33PM from the here-we-go-again dept.

Prozy.G3 writes "Mac OS X Security Update 2002-08-20 includes updated components (OpenSSL & Security) which provide increased security to prevent unauthorized access to applications, servers, and the operating system. Mac OS X Security Update 2002-08-20 is available either through the Software Update application (System Preferences) or at the Apple Knowledge Base." According to the Knowledge Base, it is for Mac OS X 10.1.5; are these components already in Mac OS X 10.2, or is another update forthcoming?

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0.9.6e by artfulbodger · 2002-08-21 02:31 · Score: 2, Interesting

The documentation for the previous security update (Security Update 2002-08-02 for OpenSSL, Sun RPC, mod_ssl) said it included 0.9.6e of OpenSSL. But after I installed the update and checked with "openssl version" it said it was still 0.9.6b.

This had me worried for a while, and mad at Apple, until someone pointed out that it looked like the update changed the significant libraries, so it probably was patched. Pretty irritating though.