Apple has coughed up 25 security updates that come bundled with yesterday's release of Mac OS X 10.5.4.
The firm said its latest Leopard release addresses operating system
and application performance issues and fixes a heap of security flaws.
The update affects operating system components that include
CoreTypes, c++filt, Net-SNMP, Ruby, Tomcat, VPN, Alias Manager and
Webkit.
Six of the vulnerabilities affect the Ruby programming language.
Apple said: "Multiple memory corruption issues exist in Ruby's handling
of strings and arrays, the most serious of which may lead to arbitrary
code execution."
The company said the update fixes the bug
Apple's fourth Leopard spits out 25 patches