Tiger, Jaguar Get Patched Up

Friday, June 10 2005 @ 06:19 PM EDT

Contributed by: glosser

Security patches for Mac OS X Jaguar and Tiger are now available.



Apple has released a security update that fixes 11 vulnerabilities in the OS X operating system. The patched vulnerabilities include holes in both OS X Jaguar 10.3 and OS X Tiger 10.4.

While most of the repairs target arbitrary vulnerabilities, such as a way to circumvent a check for unsafe file formats by changing a file name, others represent more serious holes that could allow buffer overflow attacks or give hackers root access.

Full article from MacNewsWorld

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