The Mac Security Blog
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard may be on its last legs, but Apple has released a security update for QuickTime for Leopard, fixing 14 security flaws. All of them involve viewing maliciously crafted images, videos or web sites, or playing certain types of audio files. QuickTime 7.7 for Leopard is a 69 MB download, and is available via Software Update, or from Apple’s Support Downloads page.
Full information about the update is available here.
Apple has released a security update for QuickTime, the company’s media framework. This update fixes 15 vulnerabilities, dealing with the way QuickTime handles videos and images. The update is available via Software Update, and is also available from Apple’s QuickTime downloads page. More information about this update is available here.
Note that this update is only for Macs running Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard. (There is also an update for Windows.) The fixes for these issues were included in the Mac OS X 10.6.5 update, so Snow Leopard users don’t need to apply this update.
Right after releasing a major system update with the largest number of security fixes ever, Apple has released two other updates which contain security fixes.
iTunes 9.1, released in advance of the iPad, which will be available this Saturday, fixes seven bugs, but only one for Mac OS X (the others are for Windows). This update, for Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later, is available for download via Software Update, or from Apple’s iTunes download page. It’s about 93 MB. Full information about the security fixes is available here.
As for the QuickTime update, it fixes 16 bugs, and is available for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 The fixes it contains were in the Mac OS X 10.6.3 update that was released on Monday. It, too, is available via Software Update, or from Apple’s Downloads page, and full information is available here. It’s a 69 MB download.