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SAFARI 5.1.10 FOR SNOW LEOPARD UPDATE

(Privilege escalation.)įor users on the still-supported earlier versions of OS X, namely Snow Leopard (10.6) and Lion (10.7), the latest fixes come as Security Update 2013-004, rather than as a point release. PHP isn’t the only server-flavoured component to receive security attention in 10.8.5, with fixes also shipped for the following applications usually found on servers: If you’re an OS X user, you may have been unaware that PHP was installed at all, since it is usually considered a server-side component.īut it is present, and it was vulnerable, although it isn’t enabled by default, even if you turn on OS X’s built-in Apache web server.

The handling of QuickTime movies by QuickTime.

SAFARI 5.1.10 FOR SNOW LEOPARD PDF

JPEG2000 decompression in PDF files by the ImageIO component.

JBIG2 decompression in PDF files by the CoreGraphics library.

Other significant patches include potential remote code execution holes in: That’s the bug we decribed as “only six characters from a crash.”Īlthough it probably deserved to be called a denial of service rather than merely “an issue,” it was indeed more of an annoyance than a vehicle for cybercrooks.Īt any rate, it’s good to see it patched quickly. OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5 also addresses an issue where certain Unicode strings could cause applications to unexpectedly terminate. Moving up the list, the not-a-security-fix I mentioned above is included, almost as an afterthought, as follows: Presumably, Apple yielded to public pressure to fix this long-running hole, but, instead of taking all the sudo changes from the past few months, just backported the sudo -k fix to version 1.7.4p6, a much less risky change. Until 10.8.4, doing a sudo -k (which is supposed to deauthenticate you, and thus does not require a password), followed by setting the time to just after midnight on, would give you root access.

Nevertheless, the sudo binary has been updated, and in my tests, the privilege escalation bug had vanished. The infamous sudo privilege escalation, documented and patched by sudo itself back in February and pointedly exposed on OS X by Metasploit last month, is no more.Ĭonfusingly, if you run sudo -V to check the version number, you might get the impression it hasn’t been updated, since 1.7.4p6a has the same core version string as the version shipped with 10.8.4 ( 1.7.4p6). I’ll start with the free bonus patch, because I’m delighted it’s happened and I think you should know about it.

SAFARI 5.1.10 FOR SNOW LEOPARD PATCH

There are 15 official security patches, one fix that Apple has appended to the list without explicitly admitting that it was a security issue, and one bonus patch that is mentioned on Apple’s website but not in its emailed security advisory. I’m calling it a security update, though it’s officially a full-on point release of OS X Mountain Lion, taking the 10.8 variant of Apple’s OS X to version 10.8.5.īut with twice as many security fixes listed as regular bug fixes and improvements, I’m happy to call it a “security update,” if only in the hope you’ll feel a bit more urgency about deploying it.

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