Apple today released Security Update 2005-004 which delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update fixes a buffer overflow issue in iSync could lead to local privilege escalation.
Description: The iSync helper tool mRouter contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. This could result in the execution of arbitrary commands as root by local system users. Security Update 2005-004 fixes this issue by providing a patched version of mRouter.
Security Update 2005-004 is available via Software Update.
For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301326
WAZZUPPP!!!!
Good one Braden Thomas.
I like cake.
Boy, ohh, boy . . .
the retards are out tonight!
Isn’t it sorta weird that Apple releases 10.3.9 then a couple of days later releases a security update? Only 9 more days until Tiger gets here! Let’s hope it’s not like Trudroe says and a couple of days later we get 10.4.1. Oh yeah I like cake too.
Brown is the color of poo!
I wouldn’t complain. The way I see it, this is called fast response. I’ll take an update and a fix a few days later over an update then getting cracked then getting an update 6 months later.
Cake blows.
I like pancakes. Do you like pancakes? I like ’em with butter.
got love the joy of a new toy (update). i wonder how this update will run on my G4. is it dual processor aware? i hope its all i’ve dreamed for.
So as far as checking disk permissions, what can I do when it says “Verify permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Error: No valid packages (-9997)
Permissions verification complete”
I’m lost with this one
Anyone else notice, but this is the first Security Update that I can remember that did not require a restart.
Ironic that my Magic Word is “change” as in, this is change from other security updates that in the past required a restart.
I see dead people.
MDN!
What about an article on, or even a small mention of, the serious hardware problems the G5 iMac is having – and the bad response (cover-up job?) Apple is guilty of. Have a look at http://www.macintouch.com.
There are many calling for this computer’s withdrawal from the market!!
MDN! Are you colluding with Apple’s cover-up? Or is this just a good news website – MDN preaching to the converted – a mutual back-scratching society?
Charko sees dead macs.
iMacG5?
Quit your bitch’in. Apple has a long history of making good on “proven” hardware problems.
Every computer company has had similar problems from time to time, often because the quality control of the manufacturer is at fault. Apple designs these machines, but they like so many other computer vendors, do not actually manufacture the computers.
Apple has always gone the extra mile for me, regardless of the model i’ve owned. Take a breath and accept the fact that these things can often take time to resolve.
Do you really think Dell and HP don’t have these kind of problems? The grass is NOT greener on the other side of the fence? It’s really not.
A faulty Dell Inspiron laptop explode on a young girl in South Africa; “It would appear the battery pack had exploded and disintegrated and set fire to the room.”
This is a sample list of Dell recalls over the past few years, not to mention all of the other hardware problems they’ve had to deal with that required components to be replaced in their computers, just like Apple.
… Dell recalls four million power adaptors
… Dell recalls 990,000 AC adapters – Adapters can overheat, potentially causing a fire risk or electrocution hazard, company says.
… Dell laptop named in burns explosion – Battery pack blamed
… Dell Recalls ‘unsafe’ PV745 Servers
Links…
http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39124886,00.htm
http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/08/technology/personaltech/dell_recall/?cnn=yes
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/17/dell_laptop_named_in_sa/
http://www.pyroport.com/content/32005/n220.asp
studentz- so since dell and other companies have problems with their products it is okay for apple to have them too?
wow-what brilliant logic.
“my apple just broke, oh well, dells break,too. i will just be a good studentz and accept it.”
every comapany should make products with zero problems and if there are problems quickly resolve the issues. not issue a “you think our products are bad, try the competition” statement using your so stupid thinking.
Exactly gogogogo,
I didn’t claim that other computers don’t have problems. But some of those with brand new, but useless, iMacs have been put through to ‘technicians’ who have pronounced Indian accents but no idea – they read set solutions from text-books but have no insights themselves.
Nothing at all against Indians, but it shows that Apple has farmed off it’s customer services to the third world.
Some of these very dissapointed customers are old Mac hands and they remember quite another Apple reality. They used to be able to talk with intelligent, trained advisors who obviously loved Macs.
Apple is going the way of all big modern corporations – it’s going the Microsoft way.
And I think MDN and it’s ‘customers’ should be trying to do something about it. Don’t you?
Dear gogogogo,
There’s nothing stupid about my statement. Machines fail. Nothing is perfect and no computer company will ever resolve it’s user’s problems as quickly as it’s users would like.
I think Apple’s products are great! They have served me well or better than any other systems I’ve had and that’s going all the back to my beloved Commodore Vic-20 in the early 80’s. (Nothing beats an Amiga though, even if the monitor did fail and it took Commodore three weeks to replace it, after they figured out that it was a manufacturing flaw.)
I think Apple’s service has been great! They have served me well since 1992, when I got my first Mac. Apple from my experience tops them all and I’ve owned or managed (multimedia lab) a wide range of computers for decades.
Apple also has the one of the best track records, if not the best, for customer service and I am one very happy customer. In my opinion some people are not being very realistic about what service “means”, it means that the company will get to the bottom of the problem and work to resolve it satisfactorily, as soon as humanly possible. Sometimes that means today, tomorrow, two weeks or months from now, depending on the problem.
Manufacturing problems can take some time to fix, and it sounds like the iMac is suffering from one, as Apple has had problems with manufactures before. It could be a design flaw but I doubt it, but who knows at this point and that’s the point. Apple is right not to recognize a problem until they can verify that it is a problem and what exactly that problem is. With all the STUPID things that people do with their computers, sometimes it’s the users fault. Who knows what they did to those iMacs, maybe nothing, but Apple can’t fix a problem until they are sure about what is actually going on.
When problems like this occur it takes time to figure out what the problem is, how to fix it, and get the fix out to users. And no amount of pre-production testing will catch everything. It’s simply a fact of life.
The bottom line is that Apple has great customer service, according to Consumer Reports magazine (as well as others), and has a good track record for fixing faulty hardware. I know, I’ve been working with them for years and they’ve always come through for me. But it doesn’t always happen instantly, because everything cannot be fixed instantly.
I’m just being realistic. Nothing stupid about that.
Charko,
I’m sure you have a totally valid complaint about your iMac. But can you really blame Apple for outsourcing its labor when it’s competition has already done the same?
People always complain about the price of Apple’s computers, but how can Apple compete against all of these PC companies like Dell and HP, if Apple would have to pay more for labor to make their computers and run their business?
It’s simply a matter of survival for Apple.
People want cheap products but then they complain when their jobs are outsourced to third-world nations. People can’t have it both ways. The products are cheap because people in third-world nations are willing to be paid less for the same work and when all of Apple’s competition goes off shore for cheap labor, what choice does Apple have?
Believe me, I feel for you and your iMac problem. I know it sucks. But again, you can switch to any other computer company, no matter who they are, and eventually you’ll be back in the same boat. The question really is, which company has the least amount of problems and which company resolves these problems the best.
For me that’s Apple.
Just thank God you don’t have to run Windows, because working hardware is nothing but non-functional with that ass-clown software.
Good Luck!
– James
studentx,
there’s been a misunderstanding, it’s not my iMac. Please read my first post and try the ‘Macintouch’ site if you don’t know it already.
In fact (despite everything!), I’m planning on buying an iMac – the next revision, that is.
But what started all this off was, that some of us think that it would be better for all of us, including eventually Apple, if there were more constructive criticism from MDN – the bad news as well as the good, so to speak.
The Shrub is to blame for the outsourcing of American Jobs. He set up the tax structure so his rich buddies can get richer that way. Apple would be stupid and placing themselves at a business disadvantage to not use all the loopholes bush puts in play.
I refuse to panic about any problem reported only on Macintouch or MacFixIt. Both sites exist for people to report problems that, most often, affect a tiny number of users or even just the user who reported it. If there is truly a problem, you’ll see it all over MacSurfer, not just at the two “bitch-n-moan” sites.
“I refuse to panic about any problem reported only on Macintouch or MacFixIt.”
Amen, brother! Two people happen to have the same problem and MacFixit declares the problem “confirmed”.
MacFixit sucks as a troubleshooting site. Macintouch is no better.