Twelve of the vulnerabilities being patched would enable remote code execution, which is generally considered to be a "critical" bug in security circles. Several other bugs enable users to advance their system privileges without authorization.
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Nice ammo for use against Microsoft bashers who like to harp on Windows security flaws while pretending these things don't happen in almost all large development efforts. I've always wondered "Hmmm...what would happen if Macs were as widely used as PCs". I think we have our answer. I also like how, from the sounds of this article, OS X doesn't even automatically update with this patch, nice.
Now, I'm not saying "This officially makes Macs worse than PC's". I'm sure the overall count for security flaws found in Windows XP still outnumbers those in OS X. My simple point is that now as Macs become more popular and put under the same microscope that PC's have been all these years, we find the same kind of problems. OS X, Windows, and Linux systems all have their place in this world, they're all pretty damn good at what they were truly designed for, but none of them are perfect. There is no perfect OS...and there never will be... in our life times.
So for those of you who see the PC vs Mac commercials and think "Wow, I wonder what it would be like to have a computer that just doesn't have problems like my PC", don't count on it. Just because it's funny (which they really are...I love them), does not make it true.
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