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Apple Releases Security Update 2010-003 for Snow Leopard and Leopard

Apple today released a series of security updates targeting users of Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Leopard. According to the support document for the release, the updates address a single vulnerability related to handling of embedded fonts by Apple Type Services. Discovery of the vulnerability is credited to noted cybersecurity researcher Charlie Miller, who last month disclosed his discovery of 20 new zero-day holes in Mac OS X.

- Security Update 2010-003 (Snow Leopard) (6.50 MB)
- Security Update 2010-003 (Leopard-Client) (218.6 MB)
- Security Update 2010-003 (Leopard-Server) (379.5 MB)

The Leopard versions posted to Apple's site incorporate previous security updates, explaining their large file size relative to the Snow Leopard version.

Apple also released Server Admin Tools 10.6.3, an update to Apple's package for installing remote administration tools to non-server machines. The update delivers 16 documented improvements to several of the package's components.

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24 months ago
Yay for updates
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24 months ago
Busy week at Cupertino
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24 months ago
Might want to add EFI updates for the late 2009 iMacs too.
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24 months ago
The ones for Leopard are HUGE for a security update.

It's nice to see Apple responding to security problems for a change.
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24 months ago

Busy week at Cupertino



And in Redmond - Microsoft also had their patch day today. It seems that Apple and Microsoft want to reboot all computers on this planet at the same time...
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24 months ago

And in Redmond - Microsoft also had their patch day today. It seems that Apple and Microsoft want to reboot all computers on this planet at the same time...


Seems to me every other day I get Windows updates, it gets pretty annoying.
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24 months ago
So these security holes were discovered last month and a fix was released today? So nobody took advantage? I guess security through obscurity does work.
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24 months ago

Seems to me every other day I get Windows updates, it gets pretty annoying.


Today I was thinking about how I hadn't gotten one in a long time.
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24 months ago

And in Redmond - Microsoft also had their patch day today. It seems that Apple and Microsoft want to reboot all computers on this planet at the same time...


Difference is that Mac takes a minute, Windowze takes 5-10.
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24 months ago

And in Redmond - Microsoft also had their patch day today. It seems that Apple and Microsoft want to reboot all computers on this planet at the same time...


They want to create their own earth minute.
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