Apple delivers mammoth update, patches 58 bugs
Retires Tiger from security support with second Snow Leopard patch batch
Apple patched 58 vulnerabilities in its Mac operating systems today, the most since May 2009, including several in the QuickTime media player that it had fixed separately in early September.
Apple apparently also retired Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger, from security support; none of the patches affect that operating system, which debuted in April 2005. Apple traditionally stops providing security updates for its oldest still-supported OS several months after the release of a new edition.
Today's security update was the sixth from Apple this year, and the second that included patches for Snow Leopard , launched in late August.
"Seems a little large, but really, it's par for the course for Apple," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security, referring to the number of individual bugs quashed in today's 2009-006 update. In May, Apple patched a record 67 vulnerabilities ; it addressed 55 in February, 33 in September, and 19 in two separate August updates.
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