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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'."

3 of 259 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I feel robbed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you don't know what Cmd-Shift-1 and Cmd-Shift-2 are for, GTFO.
    If you think Firefox is a decent Mac application, GTFO.
    If you're still looking for the "maximize" button, GTFO.
    If the name "Clarus" means nothing to you, GTFO.

    Bandwagon jumpers are not welcome among real Mac users. Keep your filthy, beige PC fingers to yourself.

  2. About time. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm only a semi-recent switcher to Mac but I've been pretty disappointed with OSX so far. I could go on and on about what I hate about Aqua but it's not really on-topic.

    I've been waiting for them to update Ruby for some time now, there had been a couple of known bugs and security flaws since the Apple version and the latest stable. I don't understand why Apple decided to include a bunch of open-source tools in the default install if they're not going to bother keeping them updated themselves. Ruby was the one I particularly had my eye on but I'm sure there's a bunch of other programs with similar problems. Apple really need to put some effort into Macports or something and integrate it into their own Software Update program.

    Not to mention the fact that the default setting of keeping the filesystem insensitive caused a few problems with porting programs that expect the usual UNIX case-sensitivity, or the obnoxious filesystem layout (/Applications/etc.) or the fact that the installer for most programs insist on installing to the /Applications folder and require Administrator access and you can't choose to install them within your own home directory. The Drop Box is relatively useless as well because if a guest drops a file into there you can't access the file unless you've got sudo access that can change the file permissions and ownership. It's a stupid system.

  3. Re:Not a big deal by mythz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Windows.Forms,WPF,WCF