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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. Your confusion by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All systems have vulnerabilities.

    Macs have no EXPLOITS (yet).

    This lack of exploits, and thus they need to spend tme preventing/dealing with them, is the selling point for Macs.

    You Windows people have been ever confused on the fine distinction, I guess because on Windows if there's a vulnerability there's an exploit already written and working. Us Linux and Mac users know life can be better.

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    1. Re:Your confusion by pdbaby · · Score: 5, Insightful

      the bubble of no 0-day exploits on OS X is just waiting to burst

      I'm sure it'll happen eventually, but it's curious that there are no viruses on the loose that target OS X

      Mac users don't account for a huge percentage of total users, but it's a large enough group -- and we're usually high-tech enough for it to be highly profitable for spammers/crackers/whatever to work for an exploit - we don't run anti-viruses, and I'm sure most non-developer mac users wouldn't even know how to find the process list, let alone figure out what's not supposed to be running.

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  2. Re:It's not only about the vulnerabilities... by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess it was a hit job which blindsided Telestream's Flip4Mac, Panic's Transmit, Colloquy's Colloquy, Unsanity's Application Enhancer, and the open sourced VLC as innocent bystanders in their vendetta against Apple, so at least six non-Apple branded programs were thrown in to fill out the month. Day 31 has a "filler", meaning that it's just over three weeks' worth of Apple Bugs.

    There may be some legitimacy to the complaints that Apple was unresponsive, but I agree, to bring in flaws in third party products to the mix is beyond irresponsible.

  3. Sorry... by BrianRagle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...how long has Unix existed? How many threats in the wild exist compared to oh, say, Windows? How many web servers run some variant of *nix compared to Windows and, of those servers, how many are affected by exploits and threats almost daily?

    Yeah, bring that myth of "smaller user base means less of a target" one more time. I could use another good laugh.