Mac OS X 10.2 Security Upgrade

arn

macrumors god

Original poster

Staff member

• Aug 23, 2002

• #1

In your 10.2 Software update:

Security Update 2002-08-23 includes the following updated components which provide increased security to prevent unauthorized access to applications, servers, and the operating system.

OpenSSL
Security
SunRPC

 

Article Link

https://www.macrumors.com/2002/08/23/mac-os-x-10-2-security-upgrade/

4409723

Suspended

• Aug 23, 2002

• #2

One day after the release! Were heading towards a ms style of system updates LOL.

 

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greenplasticcup

macrumors member

• Aug 23, 2002

• #3

i'm installing jaguar right now on my tower, the update should pop right up if it's anything like 10.1

 

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greenplasticcup

macrumors member

• Aug 23, 2002

• #4

yep, it did.

 

big

macrumors 65816

• Aug 23, 2002

• #5

right after rebooting, the thing popped up like a mofo

 

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greenplasticcup

macrumors member

• Aug 23, 2002

• #6

i'm installing jaguar right now on my tower, the update should pop right up if it's anything like 10.1

 

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Bartman

macrumors newbie

• Aug 23, 2002

• #7

Originally posted by W-_-W
One day after the release!

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Actually, the release date is tomorrow, so it's one day BEFORE release and we get the first update.

Way to be proactive Apple! 🙂

 

Nipsy

macrumors 65816

• Aug 23, 2002

• #8

Apple:
Release security update 1 day before software

M$:
Have vulnerabilty submitted privately. Do nothing for 2 months. Have irate vuln. finder disclose vuln. publicly. Issue press release about how harmless vuln. is. Do nothing for 2 months. Wait until billions have been wasted recovering systems from vuln. in homes and offices worldwide. Release 'Critical' update.

I'll vote for Apple's approach anyday...

 

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passwordispong

macrumors newbie

• Aug 23, 2002

• #9

Originally posted by W-_-W
One day after the release! Were heading towards a ms style of system updates LOL.

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I haven't read the complete readme on the security update so dont flame me if i am incorrect on this, but the difference here between apple and microsoft is apple is NOT updating security for stuff they wrote, on the other hand microsoft is always patching their own code.

 

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kungfu

macrumors regular

• Aug 23, 2002

• #10

they need to update the spinny thing in software update... the new one is much better. what is "sun rpc"?

kungfu

 

bit_bucket

macrumors 6502

• Aug 23, 2002

• #11

sun_rpc

sun_rpc is portmap. It is on all flavors of unix. I basically is a port that listens for various request such as NFS mount requests and other things that use remote proceedure call... If your curious portmap runs on port 111 tcp/udp check out your /etc/services. It is also known as rpcbind...

bit_bucket

 

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sockdoggy

macrumors regular

• Aug 23, 2002

• #12

Originally posted by W-_-W
One day after the release! Were heading towards a ms style of system updates LOL.

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Jaguar (6C115) was released to developers August 1st...

 

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King Cobra

macrumors 603

• Aug 23, 2002

• #13

greenplasticcup, how many towers do you have? 🙄 😀

>a ms style of system updates LOL.

Wdog, remember when OS X 10.1 was released? I think Apple had a Security Update going a short while after that. Then came Installer Update sometime later, then an eventual OS update.

The same thing probably will happen here with Jaguar. Besides, it's not like if you didn't get the updates every week or so your computer would become more prone to crashes. 😛

 

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Marc K

macrumors newbie

• Aug 23, 2002

• #14

why are there negative votes on this ???

 

skunk

macrumors G4

• Aug 23, 2002

• #15

Here's one....

Perhaps this "security update" is tagging us all as we speak. The spiel says

increased security to prevent unauthorized access to applications, servers, and the operating system.

Whose unauthorized access, eh?😕 Does it detect duplicated Jaguar installations?

 

peterjhill

macrumors 65816

• Aug 23, 2002

• #16

Without reading anything, it probably fixes some buffer overflow vulnerabilty, or some other clever hack that someone came up with.

 

eric_n_dfw

macrumors 68000

• Aug 23, 2002

• #17

Re: Here's one....

Originally posted by skunk
Perhaps this "security update" is tagging us all as we speak. The spiel says

increased security to prevent unauthorized access to applications, servers, and the operating system.

Whose unauthorized access, eh?😕 Does it detect duplicated Jaguar installations?

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Doubtfull. But maybe you need to buy as many copies of OS X as you use. 😉

 

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greenplasticcup

macrumors member

• Aug 23, 2002

• #18

King Cobra -- Just one tower at work. I thought it would sound wierd if I was saying "I'm installing jaguar right now." since I was typing; and unfortunately you can't goof off at macrumors while installing the OS. I just was trying to distinguish between my laptop and my tower.

 

bousozoku

Moderator emeritus

• Aug 23, 2002

• #19

It sounds as though it's the same update released for 10.1.x on the 13th, right?

 

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BongHits

macrumors regular

• Aug 23, 2002

• #20

Re: Here's one....

Originally posted by skunk
Perhaps this "security update" is tagging us all as we speak. The spiel says

increased security to prevent unauthorized access to applications, servers, and the operating system.

Whose unauthorized access, eh?😕 Does it detect duplicated Jaguar installations?

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every single security update i've had says that...i bet it has nothing to do with the MS style of watching where every copy of XP is installed (wouldn't it be counter-productive to monitor all your customers? but then again i guess they don't care...)

 

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Tom-Servo

macrumors newbie

• Aug 23, 2002

• #21

Doot.

This update is the Open SSL security update that was patched into 10.1.5. They didn't get it put into Jaguar apparently before it went GM. So now this is bringing security parity to Jaguar. At least that is what my developer friend is telling me. But it makes sense since lots of websites were talking about them having to roll in a few security updates that were put into 10.1 recently.

 

oeyvind

macrumors regular

• Aug 24, 2002

• #22

It's not one day before... remember folks there's multiple time zone in this world of ours... it's already afternoon of the 8/24 now in the Far East and evening in the pacific.

^^

 

skunk

macrumors G4

• Aug 24, 2002

• #23

I wasn't actually being serious, it was just getting rather one-sided, so I thought I'd throw a bit of conspiracy theory into the mix...😛

 

Falleron

macrumors 68000

• Aug 24, 2002

• #24

Where can I download the update from the web? I like to keep the updates so that i dont have to download them again (I only have a 56k modem) if my system ever needed a re-install (not likely).

 

skunk

macrumors G4

• Aug 24, 2002

• #25

Apple.com>support>downloads