Adobe Flash Accounts for 42% of Security Fixes in Mac OS X 10.6.5
Posted November 12, 2010 at 11:31am by iClarified
Adobe Flash accounts for 42% of all the security fixes found in Apple's recently released Mac OS X 10.6.5 update, according to an AppleInsider report.
Of the 131 security vulnerabilities identified and patched by the latest Mac OS X update: 16 are related to X11, 5 are related to Mac OS X Server, 9 affect QuickTime, 1 is related to the Mac OS X kernel, 1, affects Safari, 45 were found in various other code, and 55 were related to Adobe Flash. The "most serious of which may lead to arbitrary code execution."
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Of the 131 security vulnerabilities identified and patched by the latest Mac OS X update: 16 are related to X11, 5 are related to Mac OS X Server, 9 affect QuickTime, 1 is related to the Mac OS X kernel, 1, affects Safari, 45 were found in various other code, and 55 were related to Adobe Flash. The "most serious of which may lead to arbitrary code execution."
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