Stephen Withers
Wednesday, 13 May 2009 10:39
Opinion and Analysis
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Parental Controls are supposed to work more consistently, including a bug fix involving time limits and full-screen games and fast user switching.
Video playback and cursor movement has been improved on recent models with Nvidia graphics chips.
The "reliability and accuracy" of certain widgets has been improved (yes, we would like accurate unit conversion, thank you).
Most of the other changes listed apply to relatively unusual circumstances, such as the Dvorak keyboard layout, network home directories on Mac OS X Server 10.4, and various printing issues.
What about security?
46 fixes are catalogued in total, with just two of them applying exclusively to Mac OS X 10.4. Over half of the issues potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code.
Updated components include Apache, Apple Type Services, BIND, CFNetwork, CoreGraphics, Cscope, CUPS, Disk Image handling (two issues that could lead to arbitrary code execution), enscript, Flash Player, Help Viewer (two issues that could lead to arbitrary code execution), iChat, Unicode string handling, IPSec, Kerberos (multiple issues), Launch Services, libxml, Net-SNMP, Network Time, Networking, OpenSSL, PHP (the update delivers PHP 5.2.8, even though version 5.2.9 was released in February), QuickDraw Manager, ruby, Safari, Spotlight (a vulnerability in the Microsoft Office importer), system_cmds, telnet, WebKit, and X11 (multiple issues).
Some of these deserve a closer look, so please
read on.
