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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master
NRT-0269 Apple Patches:
If you own a Mac or an iPhone, chances are you'll need to download at least one of the security updates issued by Apple late on Tuesday 31JUL. Dozens of vulnerabilities and bugs were covered by a total of six downloads for Mac OS 10.3.9 (Panther), Mac OS 10.4.10 (Tiger) on PowerPC's, and the universal version of Mac OS 10.4.10, as well as the server versions of each of those operating systems. Each download contains several patches to correct flaws, and Apple is recommending that all users of those operating systems download the updates. Some of the vulnerabilities seem quite serious, leading to arbitrary code execution, downed applications, or both. Apple also issued the first software update for the iPhone as part of Tuesday's releases. Unlike the Mac updates, the iPhone update will be delivered through iTunes the next time the owner sync's their iPhone with their Mac or PC. It corrects a few flaws in Safari as well as in Webcore and Webkit, apparently the iPhone versions of some flaws Apple fixed for Mac users of Safari back in June. Finally, Apple also released a new version of Safari 3.0, which is still in beta. The new version, Safari 3.0.3, fixes some security flaws for both the Windows and Mac OS versions of the browser.
(CNET News 31JUL07)
Last Modified: Tuesday, 07-Aug-2007 21:00:06 EDT