One can only imagine why Apple refuses to patch its own Safari browser for Snow Leopard while continuing to release security updates for a plug-in for that browser.* Users of Safari for Windows are also stuck with the woefully insecure version 5.1.7. Safari 6.0 alone patched 121 vulnerabilities that were present in Safari 5.1.7, according to Apple’s security release notes. Snow Leopard users are still stuck with Safari 5.1.7, while Lion and Mountain Lion users have been graced with 6.0, 6.0.1, and 6.0.2, all of which contain security fixes. Mysteriously, while Apple continues to release Java security updates for Snow Leopard, the company is still neglecting to patch Snow Leopard’s version of Safari. (Java SE 6 was also available for Snow Leopard’s predecessor, Leopard, but Apple has not released corresponding Java patches for Leopard since June 2011, just prior to Lion’s release.)
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Apple has continued to update Java for Snow Leopard as well as for Lion and Mountain Lion users who upgraded from Snow Leopard and still have Java SE 6 installed. Additionally, Apple’s Java update also disables the Java browser plug-in “if no applets have been run for an extended period of time.”Īpple stopped bundling Java with OS X beginning with the release of Lion in July 2011.
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The update is available now via Software Update.įor systems that aren’t already running Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 9 or later, Apple’s update also configures Safari to not run Java applets automatically, instead requiring users to click on an “Inactive plug-in” notification first. Hot on the heels of Oracle’s release of Java SE 7 Update 13 for OS X Lion and Mountain Lion, Apple has released a corresponding security patch for Mac OS X Snow Leopard’s built-in version of Java. Java SE 6 Update 39 (1.6.0_39), which Apple has included in an update titled “Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 12,” fixes many of the same vulnerabilities that were patched in version 7u13 on other platforms earlier this week.
Security & Privacy + Security News Apple Releases Java 6u39 for Snow Leopard Still No Safari Patches
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