Apple plugs 36 security holes

Posted on Friday, June 24 2011 @ 23:21 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

ComputerWorld reports Apple has patched 36 bugs in Snow Leopard:

Apple on Thursday released the final feature update for Snow Leopard as it prepared users' Macs for the upcoming Lion upgrade set to ship next month.

Included in the update to Mac OS X 10.6.7 were patches for 36 vulnerabilities in Snow Leopard and Snow Leopard Server.

Apple also issued a security-only update for Mac OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard, that fixed 13 flaws in the 2007 operating system.

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