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Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Apple posts OS X security, AirPort updates

Apple's Security Update 2004-01-26 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users and is available for Mac OS X 10.3.2, 10.3.2 Server, 10.2.8, 10.2.8 Server, 10.1.5, and 10.1.5 Server. The update fixes the following issues:

* AFP Server: Improves AFP over the 2003-12-19 security update.
* Apache 1.3: Fixes CAN-2003-0542, a buffer overflow in the mod_alias and mod_rewrite modules of the Apache webserver.
* Apache 2: Fixes CAN-2003-0542 and CAN-2003-0789 by updating Apache 2.0.47 to 2.0.48. Installed only on Server systems.
* Classic: Fixes CAN-2004-0089 to improve the handling of environment variables.
* Mail: Fixes CAN-2004-0085 and CAN-2004-0086 to deliver security enhancements to Apple's mail application.
* Safari: Fixes CAN-2004-0092 by delivering security enhancements to the Safari web browser.
* System Configuration: Fixes CAN-2004-0087 and CAN-2004-0088 where the SystemConfiguration subsystem allowed remote non-admin users to change network setting and make configuration changes to configd.
* Windows File Sharing: Fixes CAN-2004-0090 where Windows file sharing did not shutdown properly.

Also, Apple released AirPort Software 3.3 and AirPort Base Station Firmware 5.3 to Software Update.

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