Apple patches OS X holes

Apple Computer has released a range of patches for security holes for its Mac OS X operating system, which it has advised users to download immediately. One security company Secunia has given the five patches a "highly critical" rating and has warned that they may allow hijacking, security bypass, data manipulation, privilege escalation, denial of service and system access. As yet, there is not a worm exploiting the holes but the company has strongly advised users to download and install the patches as the OS could be an easy target.

Secunia has given the series of patches a "highly critical" rating which, it said was because of the Apple's dismissive attitude to one of the holes.

Secunia described a vulnerability within AppleFileServer which allows for a buffer overflow as an attempt to "improve the handling of long passwords", but security specialists @stake warned that it could lead to the full system access.

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