Security Updates Included in Mac OS X 10.3.4 Update
Mac OS X Update 10.3.4 contains security enhancements for the following:
- NFS: Improves logging when tracing system calls. Credit to David
Brown <dave@spoonguard.org> for reporting this issue.
- LoginWindow: Improves the handling of directory services lookups and
console log files. Credit to aaron@vtty.com for reporting the issue.
- Packaging: Improves package installation. Credit to aaron@vtty.com
for reporting the isssue.
- TCP/IP: provides better handling of out-of-sequence TCP packets.
- AppleFileServer: Improves the use of SSH and reporting errors.
- Terminal: Improves the handling of URLs. Credit to Rene Puls
<rpuls@gmx.net> for reporting this issue.
As already pointed out, Mac OS X 10.3.4 does not contain the Security Update 2004-05-24 released on Friday 5-21 that closes the Help Viewer exploit.
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