Apple Releases 'Highly Critical' Patch

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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Re:Apple?

[TheRaven64]

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.

These are serious.. but kudos for fixing them.

[dreamer-of-rules]

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??