Apple shipped a Java security update to Leopard and Snow Leopard users that patched a total of 27 vulnerabilities. Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, received an update that patched 16 vulnerabilities in Java SE 6. Apple did not spell out how many of the vulnerabilities could be exploited to “execute arbitrary code,” its way of saying that the flaws should be considered critical. Tuesday’s Java update was the first for Apple since mid-October 2010, Apple said it would stop its own development of Java for Mac and drop it from future versions.”]
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