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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