Apple may re-release them with version number 16.3.1 but I would suggest it would be easier to re-edit the security info and just change that back to 16.3 instead - and maybe be more specific about the build numbers. Apple security issue: How to update your iPhone, iPad, Mac Apple software versions are iOS 15.6.1 and iPadOS 15.6.1, MacOS Monterey 12.5.1 and Safari 15.6.1. So long as the build numbers are 16614.4.6.11.6 for Big Sur or 17614.4.6.11.6 for Monterey, it is up-to-date regardless of Version numbers. Currently it installs as Version 16.3, but security info suggests it should be 16.3.1: and.

There is some confusion as to the version number of Safari for Big Sur and Monterey. This means the build number is 17614.4.6.11.6 Open the pkm file with textedit and scroll down to the line that looks like this (I am using the monterey one as an example) Copy the url and change the last letter from g to m and download the pkm file instead of the pkg file.Ģ. Note on how to find build numbers without actually installing it:ġ. “We’ve never addressed the root cause of all of these vulnerabilities, which is not building security in from the ground up.There is also a Safari update 16.3 for Big Sur and Monterey to fix it on those systems too. “It was absolutely inevitable,” she said. Katie Moussouris, founder and CEO of Luta Security, a company that connects cybersecurity researchers and companies with vulnerabilities, said that the rise in zero days is thanks to the ad hoc way that software is usually programmed, which often treats security as an afterthought. The number has increased every year since 2018. That’s already a sharp rise from last year, which saw 25. Project Zero, a Google team devoted to identifying and cataloging zero days, has tallied 44 this year alone where hackers had likely discovered them before researchers did. Once considered highly valuable cyberweapons held mostly by elite government hackers, publicly disclosed zero-day exploits are on a sharp rise. Against a hacker with the right zero day, there is nothing consumers can do other than wait for software updates or ditch devices altogether. Such emergency vulnerabilities are called “zero days” - a reference to the fact that they’re such an urgent vulnerability in a program that software engineers have zero days to write a patch for it.

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