‘Critical’ Apple security fixes
p2pnet news | security:- Apple has released an enormous collection of fixes for serious Mac OS X security holes.
No less than 45 patches for vulnerabilities, “including several in the open-source Samba file-sharing code that researchers recently warned still threatened users more than 10 weeks after the discovery of critical bugs,” are included, says Computerworld.
“Although Apple does not rate vulnerabilities as Microsoft Corp. and other companies do, the flaws it pegs as possibly leading to ‘arbitrary code execution’ would rank as ‘critical’ in other vendors’ threat-scoring systems,” the story emphasises.
Patched Mac OS X components included CFNetwork, the Mac OS X library of network protocols; CoreAudio, the application programming interface that handles sound on Macs; the zgrep file-compression utility; iChat; and WebCore, the part of the WebKit application framework that handles HTML rend
ering.
“Nearly three-fourths of the vulnerabilities patched in 2007-007 were in open-source software that Apple blends with its proprietary code to create Mac OS X and its supporting applications,” adds Computerworld.
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Also See:
Computerworld – Apple issues mega patch batch, August 1, 2007
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