Lion 10.7(.5) : Where is the patch for Secure Transport CVE-2015-1067 (FREAK) ?

Using Lion 10.7.5 : Where is the patch for Secure Transport CVE-2015-1067 ?


Lion is still sold in the apple store, so I think it deserves an update:

http://store.apple.com/au/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion

MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 15-inch, Early 2013, 2.7 GHz i7

Posted on Mar 10, 2015 7:21 PM

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Mar 11, 2015 1:16 PM in response to Arthur Barrett

Security updates are a must. If Apple decides they are too short on engineers to continue providing security updates for Lion, I'm ok with that but only if they give advance warning and a clear statement that Lion security updates will either no longer be produced or be produced with a lag. The problem is that upgrading to a new OS to get security updates is time consuming and disruptive.


So can we get a clear answer from Apple? Is Lion EOL for security updates? And can we get advance warning of EOL for Mountain Lion?

Mar 15, 2015 2:38 PM in response to cjnifty

Agreed that Apple needs to be a bit clearer on their software EOL policy.


It looks like currently Apple is using an "N - 2" policy, that is, they are supporting the current version plus the prior 2 versions. That would match with them dropping Lion support when Yosemite was released. Yosemite made Lion the "N - 3" release.


If I were a betting man, I would expect that Mountain Lion will drop off the support window when the next release of OS X hit the streets, possibly in a year's time frame since Apple does seem to be on a 1 year OS X release cycle.


Another point to consider - Macs released before 2007 can not run Mountain Lion or later releases. (I have one of them - a late-2006 Core2 Duo iMac). All other Macs since then can be upgraded to Yosemite. That also may factor into why Apple is dropping support for Lion - the hardware that requires Lion is in the obsolete hardware list.

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