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Hefty Apple Patch Set Tackles Leopard, Firewall Issues

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Gigacore
Gigacore Original post #1
Nov 17, 2007 at 7:40 PM
Apple has released an enormous set of patches for Mac OS X, Safari and the Leopard firewall.

by Lisa Vaas
Apple issued an enormous set of patches on Nov. 14, with 41 fixes for Mac OS X and Safari vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit to hijack systems, trigger denial-of-service and jack up their privileges.

If that's not enough, Apple capped it off on Nov. 15 with three fixes to Leopard's firewall, to solve the issue of Leopard's firewall not blocking all connections when configured to do so.

Source

OK, its time for mac users to patch! Any way this leo gets aid after a SHOOTOUT
iMav
iMav #2
Nov 17, 2007 at 7:50 PM
service pack so soon :lol:

good for apple users now their machines will be "safer" than before :lol:
Gigacore
Nov 17, 2007 at 7:55 PM
^ LOL... Yeah mac users will be happy now.. and the leo is bit cool and they dont have to worry about it ..
goobimama
Nov 18, 2007 at 12:49 PM
At least we have a service pack. Where's Vista's service pack? Btw, the .1/.2 updates always come up very quickly after the release so it's no surprise...
iMav
iMav #5
Nov 18, 2007 at 12:52 PM
vista has been consistently coming out with updates and the service pack will feature these updates and a few more ;) so we dont miss it a lot
Gigacore
Nov 18, 2007 at 12:54 PM
And even vista users didnt miss the automatic updates soon after its release ;)
goobimama
Nov 18, 2007 at 1:12 PM
Blizzard! All the way through! Snow, all over. It was much to deep. But we had to get that serum through. It was mush mush mush all over. Common now, mush mush mush.
Gigacore
Nov 18, 2007 at 2:32 PM
^ Come to the point! (i mean no indirect expressions) Be bold, be straight forward!
naveen_reloaded
Nov 18, 2007 at 2:55 PM
i doubt thier action .. how importtant these issues should have been they released a service pack so soon..

anyway its my guess...
goobimama
goobimama #10
Nov 18, 2007 at 3:33 PM
Oh sorry. Daffy duck was going through my head. That has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

Anyway, as you can see, both OSes have had security patches within a few days of their release. No big deal. Just run of the mill stuff...
Gigacore
Gigacore #11
Nov 18, 2007 at 3:36 PM
Why did u say this then?

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=663348&postcount=4
goobimama
goobimama #12
Nov 18, 2007 at 4:29 PM
EDIT: Aaah. skip it. I'm a fool. You guys are geniuses.
aryayush
aryayush #13
Nov 19, 2007 at 11:34 PM
You really need to get the hang of choosing which threads to post a reply in... :p
goobimama
goobimama #14
Nov 20, 2007 at 12:12 AM
I had written a nice toasty reply. But then I thought, I'd be wasting a lot of time over nothing. Maybe you should be my thread adviser..
aryayush
aryayush #15
Nov 20, 2007 at 12:27 AM
Your words, not mine. :D
Gigacore
Gigacore #16
Nov 20, 2007 at 7:04 AM
stupid, useless conversation.. mention "offtopic"
aryayush
aryayush #17
Nov 20, 2007 at 7:09 PM
Yeah, well, it is a completely useless topic.

There are seven Mac users on this forum out of which only three have Leopard and all three of them knew about this update long before you posted this thread.