![]() ![]() That disclosure makes no mention of OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and the web page where security updates for prior versions of OS X are normally found has no updates for 10.8. Without an update for the prior version, its users will have unpatched vulnerabilities.Īpple has released OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and disclosed the vulnerabilities from prior versions that are fixed in it. It needs to be this way because once you disclose the vulnerabilities for the current version, some large number of them will also apply to the prior version. They release these updates and disclose the vulnerabilities at the same time they do so for the current version. The history shows that Apple provides security updates for the prior version of OS X, and sometimes even for the version before that. Has Apple changed their policy on security updates for versions of OS X older than the current one? Apple has no documented policy on supplying such updates, but they do have a history and it seems that their actions since the release of OS X Mavericks indicate a change. ![]()
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