Apple update addresses Safari critical security vulnerability

   Apple has today, Thursday, March 2, 2006, released a security
update which addresses an "extremely critical" security vulnerability
in its Safari web browser for Mac OS X. This vulnerability was first
publicly reported on February 20.

   The fix for this vulnerability is one of many bundled into Apple's
Security Update 2006-001, as described in:

   "About Security Update 2006-001"
   http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382

   Another notable fix is for a vulnerability which allowed a proof of
concept trojan/worm for Mac OS X to spread via iChat file transfers.

   This Security Update requires one of the following operating system versions:

* Mac OS X v10.4.5, Mac OS X Server v10.4.5
* Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X Server v10.3.9

   Users of previous releases of Mac OS X 10.4 ("Tiger") or 10.3
("Panther") will apparently need to upgrade to 10.4.5 or 10.3.9,
respectively, in order to apply the update.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

P.S. Problems so far seen reported with the Update are described on
Apple Discussions forums; to find them, search for "2006 security
update" (without the quotes) in Apple's "Tiger Forums":

   http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=160

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Received on Thu Mar 2 13:38:12 2006