Apple on Thursday plugged over two dozen security exploits within the client and server versions of its Mac OS X 10.3 'Panther' and Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' operating systems that could potentially expose Mac users to a variety of malicious attacks.
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Member since:2005-10-02
Most of these holes were less critical and only few of them were remotely exploitable. It's not like Windows where most public known holes are extremely critical and always easily remotely exploitable. Security holes on *BSD, Mac and Linux tend to be mostly theoritical. Some of the same is true for Vista.
Member since:2005-12-15
Member since:2005-07-04
O.K., first of all, what exactly does Firefox have to do with anything? It isn't required on Linux (Konqueror, Galeon, Seamonkey, etc etc) and runs on Mac OS X and Windows as well.
And OS X, by the way, isn't much further behind the Linux Kernel in vulnerabilities.
http://secunia.com/product/96/
Of course, comparing an entire operating system (OS X) to a kernel (Linux kernel) is kind of pointless. Comparing Darwin to the kernel, or OS X to a well maintained distro would make much more sense. However, even this is pointless, because the average Linux distro contains much more software than Mac OS X, and vulnerabilities in any package, no matter how obscure and unused the package is, would show up on Secunia.
After reaching into the far regions of my brain, I've come up with the best solution. Quit fighting over something as insanely stupid as how secure your OS of choice is (one of the most pointless pissing contests I've seen in a while) and do something useful.
Member since:2006-02-28
I'm really curious to know what is the point of your "demonstration".
http://secunia.com/graph/?type=cri&period=all&prod=2719
http://secunia.com/graph/?type=cri&period=all&prod=96
By the way, i never pretended that linux were more secure, actually, i don't mind, they both have a security level well above i need for my use.
I just wanted to say that the "hundreds" patches thing was not an argument to complain about Mac OS X patches discussions we see at each patch releases.
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2005-11-23
Most of security updates i have on my ubuntu box are obscure local exploits, maybe a little bit more than i had on my powerbook (in a comparable period), but we're far from hundreds.
Only bug fixes and new feature, yeah I saw that ...
http://secunia.com/product/2719/?task=statistics
116 security holes since 2004 ...
And I assume that all those security holes from firefox are new features too
http://secunia.com/product/4227/?task=statistics (100% remote).
I will stop the demonstration here. If you think that your linux is more secure than mac os x, you are wrong.