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Apple Releases 'Highly Critical' Patch

Posted by Zonk on from the fill-your-bites-back-in dept.

Toothpick writes "Apple Insider reports that a new security update is available for download from Apple. This addresses issues identified in sudo, Safari, and OpenSSL among others. The gory details are, predictably, available on the Apple Info site." Commentary from ZDNet is also available.

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  1. Re:One problem by vertinox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    nstalled yesterday. No problems so far

    I installed updates on a 10.3.9 and a 10.4 machine and it appeared fine til I noticed I can't share files anymore between the two machines. Might be a configuration change though.

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  2. Re:Apple? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The GNU/ does refer to the GNU userland. The BSDs have their own userland, although they tend to use the the GNU Compiler Collection. The rest of the toolchain (make, loader, etc) are all non-GNU, as is the shell and the standard collection of POSIX utilities. It is common for BSDs to include GCC, GDB and GROFF, but very little other GNU software. In contrast a common Linux distro uses the GNU versions of ps, top, etc, a GNU shell (bash) and a whole raft of other GNU utils - if you removed them, then you would have an unusable system, which is why RMS requests people say GNU/Linux.

    By the way, both sudo and OpenSSL are OpenBSD spin-offs and nothing at all to do with the GNU project.

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  3. These are serious.. but kudos for fixing them. by dreamer-of-rules · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My brother recently switched to Apple.. We were IM'ing about this update and he said..

    "one thing i looove about this thing is that i'm never afraid to update like in windows. i'm not scared that it will be worse off"

    Trust is important. How many people haven't updated Windows to SP2 still??

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  4. my take by mkoz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While comparing these things is difficult at best, try (for example) Secunia's relevant product pages:

    Advisories (2003-2005) OSX 57 & XP Pro 102

    As for vendor patches Apple is at 100%... not bad.

    (XP Professional) http://secunia.com/product/22/
    and...
    (Mac OS X) http://secunia.com/product/96/

    Is any system perfect... no (even OpenBSD admits to 1 hole in 8 years), but Apple does make it as painless as possible.