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Our Blogs Core Dump Mac OS X 10.5.4 makes reliability and security the main issues
Our Blogs Core Dump Mac OS X 10.5.4 makes reliability and security the main issues | Mac OS X 10.5.4 makes reliability and security the main issues |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 01 July 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 The update also addresses a number of security issues. These include the addition of .xht and .xhtm files to the 'potentially unsafe' list, and the removal of vulnerabilities in the Alias Manager, c++filt, Launch Services, Ruby, and WebKit that can lead to arbitrary code execution.Other security matters include a fix for a flaw that could allow users to bypass the screen lock when waking a system from sleep or the screen saver, better validation of SNMPv3 packets, and a denial of service issue in the VPN software. Flaws in this list relevant to Mac OS X 10.4.11 (including Server) are also addressed by Security Update 2008-004. The updates are available via Software Update or directly from Apple's web site. The Mac OS X 10.5.4 update is 88M, possibly less when installed via Software Update. But the combo version for use with any version of Leopard is a hefty 561M.
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