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Apple patches 20 security holes in Mac OS X

We normally hear this kind of news regarding Microsoft and their applications. Apple has just released an update to their Operating System, which fixes a massive number of 20 security bugs in the application. The company has also warned that the users should update their Macs as soon as possible considering some of the bugs are critical enough to let remote code execution attacks.

Apple Computer Inc.’s Security Update 2005-005 comes with patches for Mac OS X v10.3.9 and Mac OS X Server v10.3.9. It fixes a large number of issues, which could have possibly lead to remote or local attackers to execute arbitrary commands, trigger a denial-of-service condition, or obtain elevated privileges.

Apple had also recently released patches for a range of potentially serious kernel and browser flaws. In all we have seen patches for almost 30 bugs released in the last couple of weeks. Apple said in a statement regarding these updates: “A malformed TIFF image could contain parameters that result in image data overwriting the heap. This issue has been addressed by adding additional tests when calculating the space needed for an image.”

The company also recently unveiled their latest generation Operating System codenamed Tiger that comes with almost 200 new functionalities. All the new Apple computers are now shipping with Tiger and should be safe from these fixed bugs already.