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From the News Desk
Thursday, 20. March 2008
Apple Issues Largest Security Update Ever
Apple recently issued its largest security update to address 87 potential vulnerabilities in its applications and Mac OS X operating system.
Security Update 2008-002 plugged 87 holes in the client and server editions of Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS 10.5. This single update's total patch count nearly equaled half of all the fixes Apple released in 2007, and easily dwarfed the biggest updates that year, both of which saw 40 or more bugs patched.
About half of the vulnerabilities repaired by Apple are in open-source applications, including Apache, Clam AV, MIT Kerberos 5, and PHP. The other half were found in Apple applications or components. While Apple doesn't characterize the vulnerabilities by severity, a significant number of them could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.
Security Update 2008-002 can be downloaded manually from the Apple site, or installed using Mac OS X's integrated update service. Depending on the version, the update runs between 50MB and 108MB in size.
Security Update 2008-002 plugged 87 holes in the client and server editions of Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS 10.5. This single update's total patch count nearly equaled half of all the fixes Apple released in 2007, and easily dwarfed the biggest updates that year, both of which saw 40 or more bugs patched.
About half of the vulnerabilities repaired by Apple are in open-source applications, including Apache, Clam AV, MIT Kerberos 5, and PHP. The other half were found in Apple applications or components. While Apple doesn't characterize the vulnerabilities by severity, a significant number of them could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.
Security Update 2008-002 can be downloaded manually from the Apple site, or installed using Mac OS X's integrated update service. Depending on the version, the update runs between 50MB and 108MB in size.
