Security & Privacy

Apple has released updates to Java for both Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. These updates apply to both the client and server versions of Mac OS X, and fix 19 vulnerabilities, in the Mac OS X 10.5 version, and 11 vulnerabilities in the Mac OX X 10.6 version.

Multiple vulnerabilities exist…, the most serious of which may allow an untrusted Java applet to execute arbitrary code outside the Java sandbox. Visiting a web page containing a maliciously crafted untrusted Java applet may lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user.

The updates are 120 MB and 75 MB respectively. Full information about these updates is available here and here.