Apple and Microsoft fixed the dangerous vulnerability FREAK

    Earlier we wrote about the dangerous FREAK vulnerability that was discovered in the OpenSSL library, as well as in the MS Schannel software package. The vulnerability was fixed by Apple for iOS 8 (APPLE-SA-2015-03-09-1 iOS 8.2) and OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.2 (APPLE-SA-2015 -03-09-3 Security Update 2015-002).



    For Windows 2003 Server - Windows 10 TP, this vulnerability was closed as part of the patch tuesday, which was released on Tuesday this week. FREAK was closed by updating MS15-031 (Vulnerability in Schannel Could Allow Security Feature Bypass) in the Schannel.dll library. For users of Windows 7 & 8.1, this update was installed automatically (default security settings).

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