Apple fixes its Firewall Vulnerabilities

In my last post on Sunday I have updated about the vulnerable Firewall in Apple’s latest operating system Leopard. As always, Apple has released a fix for this vulnerability. Below are the details for some of the updates released by Apple this week.







One update was for Safari browser in tiger, Apple has released a update to get Safari to version 3.0 on earlier versions of its operating systems. Safari 3.0 is a default browser in Leopard. This is just like IE 7 update for windows xp which is a default browser in Vista. This update also fixes many vulnerabilities which could allow a bad guy over internet to execute malicious code on your machine. There are also updates released for earlier version Panther through a separate download link.

Firewall Fix
Yesterday there was also an update released for the firewall vulnerability in Apple’s latest OS Leopard. According to Apple, this update fixes the firewall vulnerability which was described in my Sunday’s post.

Apart from all the above updates, there was also an update for Safari which runs on windows platform. This is a fix for several cross-browser scripting vulnerabilities which exists in Safari, if used on Windows platform.


Read What Apple Has to Say

About the security content of the Mac OS X 10.5.1 Update (client and server)


About the security content of Mac OS X 10.4.11 and Security Update 2007-008


About the Mac OS X 10.4.11 Update


About the security content of Safari 3 Beta Update 3.0.4