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Apple Releases Security Update for Jaguar 36

Posted by pudge from the yummy-for-my-secure-tummy dept.
yoshiaki writes "Mac OS X Security Update 2002-08-23 includes updated components (OpenSSL, Security, & SunRPC) for Mac OS X 10.2, which provide increased security to prevent unauthorized access to applications, servers, and the operating system. Mac OS X Security Update 2002-08-23 is available at the Apple Knowledge Base." This appears to me to be similar to the update of a few days ago, but for 10.2 instead of 10.1.
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  • What about burning iso discs? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24, 2002 @02:36PM (#4133758)
    When are they going to release a patch so you can burn hybrid cd's like you could in 10.0?
    • Excellent question. I'm eagerly awaiting the web tech notes for 10.2 so I can see exactly what it is burning and whether there is any way back to ISO9660 without resorting to Toast. If Apple seriously expects nobody to care about this loss of functionality they should have their heads examined.
      • Hopefully it's an honest, "Well shit!" error on Apple's part rather than intentionally stripping a feature --- they did redo the dialog that pops-up upon insertion of a blank optical volume.

        You [b]should[b] be able to regain the functionality in the interim by nabbing 'mkisofs' out of the Darwin tree and building a little AppleScript Studio app around it. mkisofs will write a ISO9660/HFS+ hybrid file system as a UDIF --- if I remember the manpage properly.
      • and whether there is any way back to ISO9660 without resorting to Toast.

        Well there's always Discribe [charismac.com] - I registered my copy last week. And, yeah, it works just fine on Jag. Now you can burn ISO images, as well as DVD. Kewl .... :-)

    • It still does, it just doesn't tell you (Score:4, Informative)

      by ClaraBow ( 212734 ) on Saturday August 24, 2002 @04:31PM (#4134030)
      It writes CDFS discs that can be read by windows 95 and up. Try it, it works! Now you don't have to worry about different formats anymore.

  • before you complain about the patch (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Leimy ( 6717 ) on Saturday August 24, 2002 @05:19PM (#4134146)
    1) CDs were probably burned way before yesterday when you got OS X.
    2) The use of Open Sourced technology makes it somewhat easier to find bugs and patch them.
    3) Someone found a bug ... most likely after the CDs were declared to have a "golden image". Companies have a hard time changing deadlines and Apple was not only "on time" with this product but "ahead of schedule" [sure you could say that you want them to wait till they get it right but think of the scheduling costs of all those "100 minutes of OS X" presentations which would have to be moved]

    They patched it immediately. All you had to do was start the software update program. The only thing I would have recommended differently is maybe some sheet of paper in the box saying to run Software Update manually to get the update or a notice on www.apple.com about it.
    • Actually apple does one better (at least my new installation did).

      Software Update ran automatically right after I installed 10.2.

      So I got the update within about 2 minutes of installing 10.2.
    • Actually the discs were probably packaged and shrinkwrapped soon after they were pressed --- it would've been impossible to add any paper addendum at that point without opening every single one of the tens of thousands of Mac OS X 10.2 boxes that have been manufactured.

      They could have included a notice in the shipping boxes of orders they handled but why bother? iirc, Software update is set to scheduled update out of the box.
    • what matters is the turnaround

      like the SSL baug and KDE 1 day compared to MS 1 week and counting

      the RPC only redhat and debian have fixes out everyone ese is fools they have some nice BSD people who know what they are doing

      regards

      John Jones

  • double standard...? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by pvera ( 250260 )
    I *almost* posted a troll along the lines of "how come when MS releases a patch the day after a big release its suddenly such a big deal..." but I think Leimy nailed it in the head. Not only the CDs were pressed already and would cost too much to replace the first production run (guess *who* pays if that happens?) but they did fix them very quickly. When MS releases a patch like that it is usually way behind everybody else.

  • why so large? (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Any ideas why it needs > 300 megs to install?
    Is it the prebinding?
    • It's a known flaw in Apple's software install engine --- it always seems to list the minimum size as 300MB. I'm really surprised that they didn't fix that in Jag.
  • "This security update is for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and applies the fixes contained in Security Update 2002-08-02 which was for Mac OS X 10.1.5." (Apple [apple.com])

  • Patches (Score:2)

    by Tsk ( 2863 )
    I bet apple will release version 10.2.1 rela soon now because It's been almost A month since jaguar went GM.

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