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Apple on Tuesday patched 28 vulnerabilities in is Snow Leopard operating system, including two in Adobe's Flash Player. But in another example of the tension between the two companies - as slow, buggy and obsolete - Adobe immediately countered by noting that Apple's Flash fixes were already outdated. Check out. Discover the key Mac and Apple tech trends for business users. Read InfoWorld's. Stay up to date with.
Get. '10.6.4 update for Mac OS X includes Flash Player, but not the latest version,' said Brad Arkin, Adobe's director of security and privacy, in a Tuesday shortly after Apple issued the security and performance update. Others at Adobe chimed in yesterday that Flash Player 10.0.45.2 with Mac OS X 10.6.4, and like Arkin, urged Mac users to download a newer edition directly from Adobe's site. In Flash Player 10.0.45.2 for Mac and Windows in February 2010. The newest edition of the popular media player is 10.1.53.64, a 32-patch update Adobe shipped June 10, in part to fix a zero-day flaw that since earlier this month. It's not unusual for Apple to lag behind Adobe in releasing Flash Player patches to its users. Apple, unlike, handles the distribution of Flash Player updates for its users, bundling them into its OS updates.
This was only the second time that Adobe has called out Apple over including an outdated version of Flash Player with Mac OS X, according to reviews of Adobe's security blog. The first time was last September, when Adobe noted that Apple had shipped an older, vulnerable edition of Flash Player with Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, when that OS debuted in August 2009. For bundling an old version of Adobe's software with Snow Leopard, and for 'downgrading' newer editions to the outdated software. Refreshed two weeks later to include a then-up-to-date copy of Flash. This time, Mac users who manually updated Flash Player to version 10.1.53.64 since last week need not take any further action, Arkin said in a. 'Mac OS X 10.6.4 doesn't appear to downgrade users that had previously updated to Flash Player 10.1.53.64, so users don't have to reapply the update,' Arkin said yesterday.
Users can check to see which Flash Player edition they're currently running by visiting the. Users must run the check in each browser installed on their Macs.
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If they find they're running an older edition, the newest 10.1.53.64 can be installed by from Adobe's Web site., or 25 percent of the total, fixed by Apple in Mac OS X 10.6.4 were tagged with the phrase 'arbitrary code execution,' Apple's way of saying that the bugs were critical and could be used to infect a Mac with malware, including spam bots and identity-stealing keyloggers. Among the non-Flash Player vulnerabilities addressed by Mac OS X 10.6.4 were three in its implementation of CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), three in the Kerberos authentication protocol, one in Apple's iChat instant messaging client, and one in Apple's Wiki Server software. Omniplan omniplan omniplan for mac. Mac OS X 10.6.4 also updated Safari to version 5; Apple launched the new browser June 7, at that time. Apple said it addressed 16 non-security issues in Mac OS X 10.6.4 as well, including a reliability improvement for VPN (virtual private network) connections and a resolution of an unresponsive keyboard problem.
Apple last updated Snow Leopard in May, when it closed a, a third of them critical. Users running Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, also received a security update yesterday. Mac OS X 10.6.4 can be or installed using the operating system's integrated update service. Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at or subscribe to. His email address is. In Computerworld's Mac OS Topic Center.
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