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Apple Adds to Patch Tuesday

Apple joins the the Tuesday patch party and releases a security update for Quicktime along with a bugfix update for iTunes. The patches are for the software on both Windows and OS X. The Quicktime update, to version 7.2 includes eight security vulnerability fixes some of which will allow code execution. It also includes updates to [...]
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Security Update 2007-006 for Apple OS X

Apple has released a security-only update for OS X. It’s the appropriately named Security Update 2007-006 as Apple has released one security update a month so far this year. This update is needed for 10.4.9 along with the just released 10.4.10. It’s also needed for 10.3.9. The security update addresses two vulnerabilities. One is in [...]
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Apple Releases 10.4.10 for OS X

Apple has released OS X version 10.4.10. While it contains several enhancements and fixes for the operating system it also includes one security related update. This security update keeps Apple in the one-a-month category for security updates to OS X. This security vulnerability is described by Apple as: …the reception of specially crafted IPv6 packets may lead [...]
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Apple TV Security Update

Apple has released their first security update for Apple TV. According the bulletin a remote attacker can cause a denial of service attack or arbitrary code execution. This patches the same flaw that was plugged in OS X last month. At first I thought this was interesting but probably not a problem. Apple TV’s seem limited in [...]
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Quicktime Security Update

Apple has release a security update for Quicktime. The update is for Quicktime on both Windows and OS X. The update patches two vulnerabilities that can be triggered by visiting a malicious website. The first allows code to be executed, the second could allow the "disclosure of senesitive information". Apple has also released an update to [...]
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