Apple today released Security Update 2006-003 for Mac OS X which is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components:
• AppKit
• Bom
• CFNetwork
• CoreFoundation
• CoreGraphics
• curl
• Finder
• ImageIO
• LaunchServices
• Mail
• Preview
• QuickDraw
• Ruby
• Safari
• securityd
For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303737
Security Update 2006-003 is available via Software Update for Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X Server v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.6 (Intel), Mac OS X v10.4.6 (PowerPC), and Mac OS X Server v10.4.6.
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If I used Safari, I’d be happy. But I do use Mail. So I am happy.
Glad to see security updates, at least we don’t wait forever for ours like SOME OS companies.
I do use Safari AND mail.
Thanks Apple!
Pretty long list for a system that you guys say has no security issues.
What gives?
CoreGraphics
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Yeah that CoreGraphics worm is a bitch.
Hey, Johnny– Ever heard of anything even remotely major happening to anyone as a result of anything on the list? Huh?
[Insert sound of crickets here]
Damn, you were right, Johnny.
“It Just Works” is a lie.
“Secure” is a lie.
Proof: these security updates – recommended for everyone – are more and more frequent. Something must be broken, otherwise, who would need these “fixes”?
security updates? I thought MAC OS X was perfect.
Johnny,
Do you own a Mac? Do you have issues with it? No? Then Shut up. The reason the Mac is safe is because we get security upgrades like these. Prevention works.
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Doh! Saft needs an update again. 🙁
GREAT!!!
If this fixes some of the vulnerablitiys, MaCaffe is getting a slap in the face
Some people just like generalizing statements. It’s true, if you mix multiple flavours of kool-aid together, you get an awful brownish colour.
security updates? I thought MAC OS X was perfect.
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Perfect? No. The best and safest OS in the world? Yes.
Mike
“Perfect? No. The best and safest OS in the world? Yes.”
well said
gRen:
Yep, bunches of ’em. In fact, all of them. Since ’84 – must be one of Apple’s best and most loyal and I’m real tired of getting the run-around from them when I call about known, verified, and widely experienced bugs galore in iLife (except iTunes, which seems perfect – as the rest of iLife SHOULD BE) and other of Apple’s s’ware that used to be so good.
“It Just Works” is a lie.
That’s why I have come to the conclusion that the conversion to Intel, access to Windows, seamless interchange with all things Microsoft upcoming in Leopard – are all evidence of Apple’s plan to phase out of the OS business and become the marketer of expensive aluminum enclosures and cute iPods.
That they won’t come clean about such plans is taking me, and the rest of us, as a pack of lemmings.
Confirmation can be found, in abundance, within these forums.
PC trolls, go home. We don’t post caustic comments in your Ashlee Simpson forums just to piss YOU guys off, do we? No, we don’t. Please show us the same courtesy.
“The best and safest OS in the world? Yes.”
“The illusion is now reality”
-Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
Johnny,
That makes a lot of sense. Apple switching to Windows (the most unsecure and bug ridden OS ever), because they just can’t fix bugs in iLife? rrrright.
Apple is not perfect but come on dude, think about it.
gRen
I HAVE thought about it. A lot. And, it’s not just iLife.
Here’s one for you: Do you think Tiger runs better and more reliably than Panther? It doesn’t for me. (I’m currently running two G5 Power Macs, two G5 iMacs, and one G4 PowerBook.)
All we got out of Tiger was loads of fairly worthless widgets, hyper-active Spotlight, and jazzed up Quicktime (could have done that anytime, stand alone). The underlying OS suffered.
That’s going in the WRONG direction. You have to wonder why. Apple is hiding the answer.
Man the apple crowd are bitches!
just because people use windows donest mean they cant have an opinion, Mac os x is better than windows but its not perfect ethier. ive run into bugs on my apple.
you can go to Drunken Blog without crashing Safari.
Johnny is a troll. How many catastrophic Mac virus have there been, threatening millions of users and requiring urgent security updates? Answer: none. Apple’s security updates patch *potentially* serious problems so that its users have to suffer very few (if any) *actual* ones.
Boy, Johnny, those iLife bugs you’ve been saddled with are really just gettin’ your goat, aren’t they?
Tell you what, why don’t you tell us what Horrible Angst-Causing problems you actually are having with iLife? I’m curious to know what the “show-stoppers” are that have caused you to turn into this one-man tirade of anti-Appleism.
Oh, and I for one have found each release of OS X to be better than the last.
I don’t care much for Spotlight, and I counted Widgets as one of the “least useful” additions in Tiger (although I have to admit, I now use 5 widgets regularly.)
But the core underlying system? Absolutely is more stable and faster in 10.4 than it was in 10.3.
The single most annoying thing they still haven’t fixed? At least in my daily usage, it’s the god-awful networking code that still “locks up” the Finder into spinning wheel mode when a network disk disappears and you try to click on it. That’s been there forever now, and it’s really embarassing to me that they haven’t fixed it.
But to call something like that a sign of the apocalypse? I don’t think so, man. But you know what? Just reinstall Jaguar, and roll back to iLife ’05 and stop complaining if that worked so much better for you. Seriously.
IF ANYONE IS USING AN INTEL IMAC, HOLD OFF UNTIL YOU GET FEEDBACK. POSTERS AT MACRUMORS.COM ARE REPORTING PROBLEMS WITH THIS UPDATE ON THAT MODEL.
Blucaso about said it all. I have read the stuff that Johnny is proclaiming on
this site before, and in a very similar context (probably the same guy).
There is never any elaboration on the problems encountered, just BS
generalizations. Tiger rocks for me so far, and i just upgraded straight from
Jaguar! (PM G4 867 x 2, 1gb)