Apple Releases Security Update 2004-01-26
ollie_ob writes "Apple's released an important security update for Mac OS X today. The update includes changes to the following important apps and services: Apache 1.3, Classic, Mail, Safari, Windows File Sharing. In addition, it includes the 2003-12-19 Security Update. It's available via Software Update." It's also available for Server.
Shouldn't 10.3.3 be here soon?
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey --Beck
This item's been sitting here a while, without even a FP troll. Is the Apple OS so secure that a security patch is not an immediate "get it now"?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
We're not sure what it does. But it installs fine and seems to work!
Anyone know if/when Apple will incorporate Apache 2.0? Or if there would be any use to doing so?
I feel like I update my OS 10.3 box more than my win2k system! Its time Apple went to Microsoft's monthly update system.
Ever since the 10.3.2 update crashed my laptop I wait a day or two to see how things are going. That was the only crash I've ever had in Mac OS X though, and I had reloaded and (automatically) had all my settings back to the way they were before the crash, and had the system all patched up, even with the patch that crashed the system, within 35 minutes. This was amazing to me, considering all the hundreds of times I've spent reloading my own or other people's windows boxen and the frustration of importing all the previous settings (and never quite getting them ALL back). I'm not going to say OS X is the OS that does it all, but I will say that after using MS OSes since DOS 3.2 my new desktop OS of choice is OS X for reasons like that... Even so, I still do wait a day or so to patch because clearly things can, and do, go wrong some times.
Looks like someone's abusing the moderation system again. I really wonder why people don't get banned from it after enough Unfairs.
Do any of these fixes affect 10.2.8 or only for 10.3?
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
I have installed it on 3 machines, and everything seems to work fine with one exception. Every time I install it and reboot, there it is in the Software Update list again. I even tried installing it a 2nd time on one machine, sure enough it was there again after reboot. Big Ben, Parliament, kids
OS X in this regard is no better than Windows. It's an opaque operating system and dispite the list of changes that Apple provides, there's no real way to know if the patch is going to kill your system.
Did you miss http://developer.apple.com/darwin/?
Have fun with the kernel...
Happy 20th Anniversary, Macintosh users. You get... a security fix.
Fingers crossed...been waiting for months.
APPLE-SA-2004-01-26 Security Update 2004-01-26
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Security Update 2004-01-26 is now available. It contains security enhancements for the following:
AFP Server: Improves AFP over the 2003-12-19 security update.
Apache 1.3: Fixes CAN-2003-0542, a buffer overflow in the mod_alias and mod_rewrite modules of the Apache webserver.
Apache 2: Fixes CAN-2003-0542 and CAN-2003-0789 by updating Apache 2.0.47 to 2.0.48. Installed only on Server systems.
Classic: Fixes CAN-2004-0089 to improve the handling of environment variables. Credit to Dave G. of @stake for reporting this issue.
Mail: Fixes CAN-2004-0085 and CAN-2004-0086 to deliver security enhancements to Apple's mail application. Credit to Jim Roepcke for reporting CAN-2004-0086.
Safari: Fixes CAN-2004-0092 by delivering security enhancements to the Safari web browser.
System Configuration: Fixes CAN-2004-0087 and CAN-2004-0088 where the SystemConfiguration subsystem allowed remote non-admin users to change network setting and make configuration changes to configd. Credit to Dave G. from @stake for reporting these issues.
Windows File Sharing: Fixes CAN-2004-0090 where Windows file sharing did not shutdown properly.
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