Mac OS X 10.6.7 update that went live yesterday hasn’t brought out any new user-centric features. However, besides fixing display flickering and lock ups on 2011 MacBook Pros, the software update did a good job of bug squashing, fixing a ton of vulnerabilities security experts discovered in Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Leopard. More than 56 vulnerabilities were patched, according to a Computeworld article.
These include a vulnerability that security expert and four times Pwn2Own winner Charlie Miller “didn’t get a chance to use at the hacking contest earlier this month.”
Apple’s security advisory accompanying the Mac OS X update says 45 of the 56 vulnerabilities allowed “arbitrary code execution.”
The phrase denotes a critical flaw that lets hackers take control of the machine upon visiting a malicious website.
The publication explains:
As we recently reported, the Safari browser was hacked within minutes at the HP TippingPoint-sponsored hacking challenge at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
