As promised, Apple has released an update for OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks that patches a security flaw exploited by a hack called Shellshock. While Shellshock only affects Mac users who manually set up advanced UNIX services, it’s still a serious enough flaw for Apple to address.
OS X bash Update 1.0 is available for download from Apple’s website now, and it should start appearing in the Mac App Store’s updates section any moment. All Mac users running a version of OS X prior to Yosemite are recommended to download the update.
Source: Apple
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2 responses to “Apple releases OS X update to patch Shellshock vulnerability”
“As promised, Apple has released an update for OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks…”
Hmmm, the link is for Mavericks only. After poking around on Apple, I found this link to Mountain Lion: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1768 I’m sure others will find links to their specific OS.
its still not showing in my app store update :(