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Security Update 2004-09-07 [Updated]

Tuesday September 7, 2004 3:19 pm PDT by Arnold Kim

Now available via Software Update:

Security Update 2004-09-07 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components:

CoreFoundation
IPSec
Kerberos
libpcap
lukemftpd
NetworkConfig
OpenLDAP
OpenSSH
PPPDialer
rsync
Safari
tcpdump

For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798

[Update] A revised version (1.1) of the Security Update was made available as of 2004-09-13, apparently to address certain issues that arose from the first release.

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