Security News > 2020 > December > Apple Patches Tens of Code Execution Vulnerabilities in macOS
2020-12-16 09:05
Updates released this week by Apple for its macOS operating systems patch a total of 59 vulnerabilities, including roughly 30 that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Some of the bugs, Apple explains in its advisory, could be exploited to execute code with system or kernel privileges.
This week, Apple also released updates for tvOS and watchOS, to resolve 9 and 10 vulnerabilities in each, respectively.
Just as with the release of iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3, these updates are meant to fix arbitrary code execution, memory disclosure, heap corruption, and authentication policy violation flaws.
The company also patched vulnerabilities with the release of macOS Server 5.11, Safari 14.0.2, iOS 12.5, and watchOS 6.3.
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