Re: Nessus ID 12521

On Apr 4, 2008, at 9:30 PM, Mark A Timm wrote:

> Plug-in 12521 states that Apple no longer supports 10.2 (Jaguar).  I  
> was told that Jaguar will be supported until 2011.  What is this  
> plug-in’s definition of support?

Apple does not communicate openly about EOL for their operating  
systems. Based on experience, it seems that Apple only provides  
(public) updates for versions N - 1 and N of their operating system  
(when was the last 10.2 update ? 10.3 ?).

This means that a typical Mac OS X system running 10.2 is not going to  
get any security updates, so we mark at as running an EOL'ed  
environment.


(given Apple's stance on security, a lack of security updates for 10.2  
really, really does not mean that 10.2 is immune from all the security  
issues which have been patched over the years).


				-- Renaud
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