Apple security patches ‘match’ last month’s 19/12/2007 Apple’s security patches for this month included fixes for Leopard, Tiger and Mac OS X and reached the 200 mark for patches it has issued throughout the year.
The company has issued four of the nine featured fixes for over 40 different vulnerabilities - 17 of which were marked by Apple as capable of arbitrary code execution and while it does not have a rating to measure its danger, it could be considered critical under Microsoft standards, according to techworld.com. Security professionals recommend that users install the newly released updates as soon as possible and stressed the need to repair any vulnerability remotely exploitable over the internet.
This was a huge batch of patches, said Jon Orbeton, strategic product manager for IronPort. The going theory is as the user population of Apple continues to increase they become a more significant target for the attackers. All of the patches included in the announcement were in Core Foundation, Cups, Flash Player Plug-in, and lesser-known systems such as ColorSync, the IO Storage Family, and the Perl, Python and Ruby programming languages.
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