Although Apple could release a 10.4.10, history shows us they prefer the numerical purity of single digits. Like the last few updates to Tiger, this one is a grab bag of fixes for numerous individual problems, and it’s likely the last big hurrah for Tiger, as Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard’s ostensible ship date moves ever closer. There’s no simple way to summarize 10.4.9’s general enhancements. Most of the non-MoAB exploits fixed by the security update require local users with access to an account and software that isn’t enabled by default in Mac OS X. Security Update 2007-003 and the related code in Mac OS X 10.4.9 fix dozens of problems reported in the Month of Apple Bugs, including what was the most serious remaining problem, a way to exploit a flaw in Software Update by “enticing a user to download and open a Software Update Catalog file.” We haven’t seen reports of this – or any of the rest of the bugs – in the wild. The security update is incorporated into the Tiger update, and could have been labeled “Fixes for the Month of Apple Bugs,” a project we have written about before (see “MoAB Is My Washpot,” ).
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