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Category: MacOS X Local Security Checks Risk factor: Critical Added: 10 Oct 2008
Synopsis:

The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.

Description:

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.4 that does not have the security update 2008-007 applied.

This security update contains fixes for the following products :

- Apache
- Certificates
- ClamAV
- ColorSync
- CUPS
- Finder
- launchd
- libxslt
- MySQL Server
- Networking
- PHP
- Postfix
- PSNormalizer
- QuickLook
- rlogin
- Script Editor
- Single Sign-On
- Tomcat
- vim
- Weblog

See also:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html

Solution:

Install Security Update 2008-007 or later.

Risk factor:

Critical / CVSS Base Score : 10.0
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

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