Apple fix more than 20 security flaws in October update

The SA-2008-10-09 security update released by Apple on Thursday patches more than two dozen security flaws relating to both the Mac OS X as well as fixes to other bundled open-sourced projects. Some of the open-sourced packages are Apache, ClamAV, CUPS, PHP, MySQL, and Tomcat. Mac-specific software such as ColorSync and Finder are also patched in the latest update. The update is available either from the Software Update system preference, or from Apple's website. Indeed, security researchers criticized Apple's patching procedures for being "a mess" just a few weeks ago. The argument is that Apple's ad-hoc patching schedule doesn't exactly engender it to the enterprise, which needs to allocate time for testing before rolling it out.

To read up more about the security patches from Apple:
- check out this CNET News article