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Apple Mac OS X Update For 17 Vulnerabilities

Posted by Zonk on from the enjoy-a-less-wormy-apple dept.

BSDetector writes "Apple has released fixes for 17 OSX vulnerabilities, ranging from system takeover to denial-of-service attacks. It was the fifth security update released this year. It also marked the first time this year that an operating system security update from Apple did not patch a vulnerability disclosed by the January Month of Apple Bugs project. Today's update pushed Apple's year-to-date patch total to over 100. More than one of the affected flaws were called 'critical' or 'dangerous'."

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  1. Well, ok by PHAEDRU5 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gotta say, however, that when the supercilious little Mac f**k opens his mouth, I just want to slap him.

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  2. Re:I feel robbed by catwh0re · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Storm in a teacup. Use of words such as "dangerous" and "critical" for sensationalism purposes. "Dangerous" is my computer's battery blowing up. Critical is a pacemaker failing.

  3. Re:The reboot was not appreciated... by Ash-Fox · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My bride has a MacBook. She got the notification, it downloaded what seemed like a fairly large file after prompting for a password. Don't know if it asked and she missed it, or if it rebooted after installing the patch - but either way her machine did an unexpected restart.
    That's nothing, OS X wants to restart on stupid things like QuickTime and Java updates.
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