Apple Patches Over 40 Vulnerabilities in macOS Catalina

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Apple this week released security updates to address over fifty vulnerabilities impacting macOS and Safari.

A total of 44 security flaws were fixed with the release of macOS Catalina 10.15.5, impacting components such as Accounts, AirDrop, Audio, Bluetooth, Calendar, ImageIO, Kernel, ksh, PackageKit, Sandbox, SQLite, USB Audio, Wi-Fi, and zsh, among others. [....]

All these security bugs were fixed with the release of macOS Catalina 10.15.5, Security Update 2020-003 for Mojave, and Security Update 2020-003 for High Sierra.

Apple also patched 10 vulnerabilities with the rollout of Safari 13.1.1, which is now available for macOS Mojave and macOS High Sierra, and included in macOS Catalina.
 
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One the best things about macOS is the rate its own software updates. I get 100% download speed, whereas on Windows it is always 60-70% download speed.
 

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