Apple Inc. patched 40 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X yesterday — more than half of them labeled with the company’s equivalent of "critical" — and in the process broke the 250-bug bar for the year.
Collectively dubbed Security Update 2008-007, the fixes patched flaws in Finder, QuickLook, ColorSync and a host of open-source components that Apple integrates with its own code, including the libxslt library and vim. "While this seems to have an abnormally high number of patches for third-party software," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security Inc., "it’s become par for the course from Apple." Apple releases another mega-patch for Mac OS X
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