Apple released OS X Lion update 10.7.3

The new patch from Apple fixes 40/50 critical security bugs on Mac OS X and upgrades Safari to version 5.1.3.

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The new update is over 700MB in size. Photo: Geeky-gadgets.

Apple has just released an update for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.6 Snow Leopard. The last time the company made an operating system update was mid-October 2011. Some users said that after downloading and installing the patch, all applications have " crashed " when booting. The company said that among the above patches, there were 40/50 security holes considered extremely dangerous. In addition to automatically updating on Mac OS X, users can download the patch from Apple's website.

One of the above patches fixes SSL 3.0 (secure socket layer) and TLS 1.0 (transport layer security). The bug was discovered by researchers in September before using a hack tool called BEAST (Agaisnt SSL / Browser Exploit SSL / TLS). Earlier, " Apple " made similar bug fixes on iOS. In addition, the company released a patch for certificates issued by Digicert. MacBook manufacturer also released 6 patches for QuickTime to avoid malicious image, audio and video files for the device. Other components in the operating system such as Apache, ColorSync, OpenGL, HPH and X11 . are also fixed by the company.

In addition, Mac OS X 10.7.3 also helps users to avoid Wi-Fi disconnection when exiting " Sleep " status and better integrating with Active Directory on Windows Sever. Wi-Fi-related errors that appeared on the first update for OS X Lion in August were also fixed by the manufacturer. Mac OS X 10.6 has only one patch with the code 2012-001. Safari web browser on Mac OS X is also upgraded to version 5.1.3.

Some Mac users said they had a " CUI " error after updating to 10.7.3. Applications also cannot start and only report the error as above. To fix this problem, users download and install OS X Lion 10.7.3 (Client Combo) here . Before installing this patch, users should start the computer in " Safe mode " by holding down the Shift key when the laptop starts up. In addition, Time Machine can be used or use Lion's Restore HD recovery partition to restore the previous state. To use Restore HD, when the machine boots, the user holds the Alt / Option key.