Apple Ships Leopard Update to Disable Outdated Versions of Flash

From PC World: Apple on Monday issued its first security-related update for OS X 10.5, or Leopard, in nearly a year, to disable long-outdated versions of Adobe's Flash Player.

Security Update 2012-003 does not patch any known vulnerabilities, but is instead a Leopard-specific version of what Apple released last week for OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard, and the newer OS X 10.7, better known as Lion.

Like those updates, 2012-003 for Leopard removes versions of Flash Player older than 10.1.102.64. Adobe issued that edition of Flash in November 2010. It was also the final version Apple delivered to its customers before it stopped maintaining Flash.

Monday's update will not be installed on PowerPC-equipped Macs running Leopard.

On May 9, Apple disabled older copies of Flash Player on Snow Leopard and Lion using an update to Safari 5.1.7. Because that version of Apple's browser doesn't support Leopard, the company instead updated the operating system.

The newest version of Flash Player for Leopard is 10.3.183.19, which was released earlier this month. That newest version, which requires an Intel processor, can be downloaded from Adobe's website.

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