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Apple Releases Mac OS X Patches

Posted by michael on from the little-dutch-boy dept.

phoric writes "According to eWeek, Apple has released security patches to fix 16 'highly critical' holes, one-third of which deal with the open-source Apache web server. Several of the fixes address exploits such as the bypassing of security restrictions, spoofing, and potential DoS attacks."

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  1. For MacOS X users who customise their httpd.conf by HSpirit · · Score: 5, Informative

    Two of the vulnerabilities reported attempt to modify the

    /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
    configuration file used by Apache 1.3.

    Those MacOS X users (like me) who manually reconfigure their Apache configuration should note that the update (sensibly) will not modify a customised httpd.conf. If you fit into this category you should read the advice posted by Apple on how to manually update your httpd.conf to ensure your Apache is not serving up content which should not be available.