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Security Update 2003-08-14 Released

Posted by pudge on from the if-you-can-read-this-you-are-not-in-nyc dept.

Delta-9 writes "Today, Apple released Security Update 2003-08-14, which 'addresses a potential vulnerability in the fb_realpath() function which could allow a local or remote user to gain unauthorized root privileges to a system.'" It's on Software Update, and will likely soon appear on the support downloads page.

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  1. Beware of updating... by irving47 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As soon as the update finished downloading, I was no longer able to launch Camino, Firebird, or Mozilla. In other words, any Mozilla-based browser. Can anyone else confirm that???

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  2. Re:Dear Apple by zpok · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I bet your big-breasted wife doesn't know you're wasting your time playing with the boys here on \.

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  3. Zoom Zoom! by Farley+Mullet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's amazing how fast that download went, what with half the computers in the U.S. offline. Slashdot, on the other hand, is crawling for some reason. Could be that most of Ontario still doesn't have power, so there are fewer local links to the backbone.