MAC OS x Security upgrades fix serious vulnerabilities

Apple today released the 2010-003 security update for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. And in the past each time accumulated multiple patch release, this update only fixes a serious security vulnerability, it shows the harm of the vulnerability.

Apple said in a technical support document that the patch fixes a vulnerability in the Mac OS X operating system Apple type service. With this vulnerability, hackers can hide malicious code in the font data, which can result in malicious code execution when the user browses or downloads documents embedded in the font.

Apple's special acknowledgement in the document is the first disclosure of the vulnerability by security expert Charlie Miller in the TippingPoint Company's Zero Day Initiative Vulnerability Discovery Award program.

The snow Leopard version of the Mac OS X 1010-003 Security Update has a capacity of 6.5mb,leopard version due to the other security updates included prior to 200MB.

-Security Update 2010-003 (Snow Leopard) (6.50 MB)

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1029

-Security Update 2010-003 (leopard-client) (218.6 MB)

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1027

-Security Update 2010-003 (leopard-server) (379.5 MB)

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1028