{"id":2939,"date":"2011-06-24T08:44:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T07:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2012-12-12T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T21:57:32","slug":"apple-releases-mac-os-x-10-6-8-with-security-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/apple-releases-mac-os-x-10-6-8-with-security-fixes\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.8 With Security Fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple has released Mac OS X 10.6.8, the latest update to Snow Leopard (and perhaps the last, as OS X 10.7 Lion is due out in July). This update, which is 474 MB, includes a number of security fixes, for such elements as AirPort, the AppStore, Core Graphics, FTP server, and several third-party elements such as MySQL and OpenSSL. Altogether, 40 bugs are fixed in this update. We’d like to highlight a kernel vulnerability, whereby “A null dereference issue existed in the handling of IPV6 socket options. A local user may be able to cause a system reset,” discovered by Intego engineer Thomas Clement.<\/p>\n

Apple also updated Mac OS X Server, with a 542 MB updater, to version 10.6.8.<\/p>\n

Full information about this security update is available here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple has released Mac OS X 10.6.8, the latest update to Snow Leopard, fixing 40 security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3151,80,119],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-security-privacy","tag-apple","tag-mac-os-x","tag-security-update"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t