Apple Releases Snow Leopard Patch

Apple Releases Snow Leopard Patch

Apple on Monday released Mac OS X 10.6.2, an update to its Snow Leopard operating system that fixes several dozen IT security issues and enhances general operating system performance.
The Snow Leopard update addresses 40 security vulnerabilities, many of which occur in open source components of Mac OS X, such as Apache or Subversion. The 10.6.2 update resolves a bug that could lead to the deletion of files in a user's home directory following a Guest account login. This means that anyway, you have to be aware of disaster recovery and remote backup.

Though Apple says an attack on this weakness isn't yet computationally feasible, the IT company is nonetheless limiting the use of X.509 certificates as "a proactive change to protect users in advance of improved attacks against the MD2 hash algorithm."