1/9/2023 0 Comments Updates for safari 5.1.10In case you’re wondering, on OS X 10.9.4 the update to Safari 7.0.6 comes in at a touch over 50MBytes.įollow on Twitter for the latest computer security news.įollow on Instagram for exclusive pics, gifs, vids and LOLs!Īlas, Apple’s refusal to incorporate a real search application in OS X (by which I mean one that will let me find any file on my computer, not just the ones Apple thinks I should want to find) requires me to use a third-party search app…in which case, why do I need Spotlight eating CPU capacity and constantly hammering away at my hard drive?Īnd there’s the rub the App Store application is broken without Spotlight running…or at least that’s true in OS X 10.8.5. (On OS X Mavericks, this actually takes you to the Updates page of the App Store application.) What to do?Īs with previous Safaris, the updates aren’t available from Apple’s downloads page, where the most recent version is the superseded Safari 5.1.10 from nearly a year ago (). No surprise that Apple’s own “XP headache,” Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), gets nothing. Safari on Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks (OS X 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 respectively) get patches, taking Safari 6 users to version 6.1.6 and Safari 7 users to 7.0.6. That’s the usual sort of vendor long-hand for drive-by download or click-to-own. Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. There’s not much detail in Apple’s security bulletin, which is, happily, already listed on the company’s HT1222 security portal page, except to note that the update fixes various Remote Code Execution (RCE) holes:
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