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How to Fix OS X El Capitan Security Flaws: Top 10 Remediation Tips | UpGuar

Learn about new features, changes, and improvements to UpGuard: The twelfth major release of Apple's flagship desktop and server operating system dropped on September 30th, 2015, bringing with it a host of new and improved features like Split View, a smarter Spotlight, Metal for Core Graphics, and under-the-hood performance improvements, among others. The Accelerate Framework consists of C APIs for vector and matrix math, digital signal processing, large number handling, and image processing.

A kernal issue in OS X El Capitan involving the mishandling of memory reuse could allow attackers to cause a DoS via a local, crafted application. The Core Audio framework consists of a set of software interfaces for audio features in applications for OS X. Unfortunately, coreaudiod—the BSD process for this service—does not initialize an unspecified data structure, which could ultimately allow an attacker to execute arbitrary malicious code via a specially crafted application.

In OS X El Capitan, multiple flaws in the Core Graphics component could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a DoS (memory corruption) via a specially crafted web site.