Apple on Monday issued its first security-related update for OS X10.5, or Leopard, in nearly a year, to disable long-outdatedversions of Adobe's Flash Player. Security Update 2012-003 does not patch any known vulnerabilities, but is instead aLeopard-specific version of what Apple released last week for OS X10.6, or Snow Leopard, and the newer OS X 10.7, better known asLion. Like those updates, 2012-003 for Leopard removes versions of FlashPlayer older than 10.1.102.64. Adobe issued that edition of Flashin November 2010. It was also the final version Apple delivered toits customers before it stopped maintaining Flash. Monday's update will not be installed on PowerPC-equipped Macsrunning Leopard. On May 9, Apple disabled older copies of Flash Player on Snow Leopard and Lion using an update to Safari 5.1.7. Becausethat version of Apple's browser doesn't support Leopard, thecompany instead updated the operating system. The newest version of Flash Player for Leopard is 10.3.183.19,which was released earlier this month. That newest version, whichrequires an Intel processor, can be downloaded from Adobe's website . Also on Monday, Apple released a version of the Flashback malware removal tool designed for Leopard. Apple had offered the same tool to SnowLeopard and Lion users on April 12. The Flashback seek-and-destroy tool was Apple's response to amassive campaign that exploited a Java vulnerability to infect hundreds of thousands of Macs. Apple still maintains Java for users of Snow Leopard and Lion, butlast patched the Oracle software for Leopard users in June 2011. Unlike the Snow Leopard and Lion Flashback removal tool update, theone for Leopard said nothing about automatically disabling the Javaplug-in used by browsers such as Safari, Chrome or Firefox. Security experts and pundits have blasted Apple for its sluggishpatching of Java bugs and for dropping support for older operating systems too quickly . It's unlikely that Monday's Leopard updates signal a change inApple's support policy since they do not address any securityvulnerabilities that may exist in Leopard. Monday's updates were the first that Apple has shipped for Leopardsince November 2011, when it patched a bug in iTunes 10.5.1. Thelast operating system security update applicable to OS X 10.5 wasdelivered in June 2011. Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsersand general technology breaking news for Computerworld. FollowGregg on Twitter at @gkeizer , on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed. His email address is . See more by Gregg Keizer on Computerworld.com . Read more about malware and vulnerabilities in Computerworld's Malware and Vulnerabilities Topic Center. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Steel Truss Bridge , China Mechanized Bridge for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Steel Suspension Bridge.
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