James Delahunty
11 Sep 2009 20:31
Starting on Wednesday, Apple pushed out 47 separate fixes for its Mac OS, iPhone and QuickTime products. Some of the fixed issues had the potential to allow attacks seize complete control over a system.
OS X components included Alias Manager, CarbonCore, ClamAV, ColorSync, and CoreGraphics and Adobe Flash. The updates were available for both the Tiger and Leopard versions of the operating system.
The iPhone updates addresses holes in CoreAudio, WebKit and MobileMail. QuickTime, which is no stranger to security updates, also had several security problems that could allow attackers to hijack a machine. They related to how QuickTime handled manipulated H.264 and MPEG-4 files.
One one of the 47 fixes was for the Snow Leopard operating system (though it was updated to fix other issues with the new OS), only recently released. The single fix only updated the Flash software to the latest and most secure version.