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Apple Posts Security Update 2005-002

Posted by pudge on from the i-am-scared dept.

thelemmings writes "Today, Apple released Security Update 2005-002 for Mac OS X. It fixes a bug in the Java 1.4.2 implementation where an untrusted applet could gain elevated privileges and potentially execute arbitrary code. Sounds scary."

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  1. Re:Safari Popup Fix by Defender+of+Property · · Score: -1, Troll

    In other words, it allows you to more effectively steal information and services from those who are kind enough to provide them for free, in exchange asking only for the opportunity to show you an easily ignored advertisement. Spoiled scum like you, with your obnoxiously oversized sense of entitlement, ought to be exiled to the desert, if you ask me. There you can establish your commune or whatever it is you hippies like to do, while we in civilized society will do our best to forget you.

    I cannot imagine a more selfish attitude towards the world than that which the teabagging cocksmokers of Slashdot bring to light.

  2. Go Go Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This was fixed more than a month ago in Sun Java. Lame response time, Apple.

  3. nah... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...where an untrusted applet could gain elevated privileges and potentially execute arbitrary code. Sounds scary.

    Nah... this sort of vulnerability is only scary on Windows.

    ;)

  4. Re:Apple Proactive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is it just me, or does it seem like Apple has a team of people working on *finding* bugs and security holes in OS X

    Apple takes security very seriously. MS can afford the melt-down of the month. Apple can't.