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Apple Patches Vulnerabilities in macOS, macOS Server

September 26, 2017

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Apple on Monday announced the release of security patches for its macOS users, available as part of the macOS High Sierra 10.13 platform upgrade.

The tech company addressed over 40 security flaws impacting OS X Lion 10.8 and later. Affected components include Application Firewall, AppSandbox, Captive Network Assistant, CoreAudio, Directory Utility, file, IOFireWireFamily, Kernel, libc, libexpat, Mail, ntp, Screen Lock, Security, SQLite, and zlib.

With 10 vulnerabilities addressed in it, ntp emerges as the most affected component, followed by file, with 6 security flaws, and SQLite with 5 vulnerabilities. These issues were addressed by updating to ntp version 4.2.8p10, file version 5.30, and SQLite version 3.19.3. Apple also addressed 4 bugs in zlib by updating it to version 1.2.11.

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