Ship Monday, Patch Wednesday: Apple Fixes Brand New Mac Pro (TechWeb)

Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday issued a security update for the Mac Pro, the top-of-the-line Intel Xeon-based system that the company rolled out only .

The fix, dubbed Update 2006-004 for Mac Pro, adds 5 patches included with for the Cupertino, Calif. company's other systems, to Apple's newest and beefiest client computer.

Two sections of that update -- four patches for the ImageIO component to defend against malicious TIFF files, and one fix for the OpenSSH server -- weren't included with the version of Mac 10.4.7 pre-loaded on the new Mac Pro machines.

"The fixes for these issues were not fully tested in time for the manufacturing of the Mac Pro," said Apple in an , "and [so] are being provided via this security update."

The update can be downloaded from the , or users can retrieve the patches using their Mac Pro's built-in update function.

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