Apple Releases Safari 5.1.7, Snow Leopard Updates, and More

Accompanying yesterday's updates for OS X Lion client and server, Apple has released a number of other updates for its supported operating systems and OS X software. The first is a security update for Snow Leopard, which applies similar security updates for its components that were applied to Lion in the OS X 10.7.4 update. Apple has a knowledge base page on the security details of this update, but as of this writing the page is not loading from the Apple support site.

In addition to the Operating System updates, Apple has made available updates to its popular software packages. The most notable of these is its Safari Web browser, which received a small version bump to 5.1.7 to tackle a few bugs and address some security vulnerabilities in its WebKit rendering engine. The primary detail here is Apple's attention to the security regarding Adobe Flash Player, where the browser will now disable the plug-in when a new version is available from Adobe, to ensure that users stay up-to-date and are not kept vulnerable to security holes in older versions of the software.