Apple improves security-fixes 11 bugs with new patches for Mac OS X

By Janine de Blois

In order to protect its users from hackers Apple has addressed some serious security issues together with its 10.5.2 update to Leopard. Patches include fixes for Safari, Mail, Launch Services, the Mac OS Directory Services, Open Directory, Parental Controls as well as some Unix components. Unix fixes included the flaw in Samba, which was recently addressed in open-source distributions.