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Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Apple fixes 15 flaws in Mac OS X

ZDNet: "Apple Computer released an update to its Mac OS X operating system on Tuesday to fix 15 security issues in the software, some of which are considered 'critical.' Many of the problems are flaws in the operating system's underlying open-source software, including a critical flaw in the Kerberos authentication system--software that can act as a gatekeeper for computer networks. The patch is available for Mac OS X 10.3.5 and Mac OS X 10.3.4, and also fixes issues in Mac OS X 10.2, known as Jaguar. 'All security enhancements...are also available for Jaguar, if the issue could occur on Jaguar systems,' a security advisory from the company said."

Details here. And kudos to Apple for addressing these issues in the previous version of Mac OS X as well; prior fixes applied only to Panther originally, which is sort of problematic.

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