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Apple patched at least 46 weaknesses and vulnerabilities in Mac OS X as well as popular Apple applications in a release on Tuesday.

The updates fixed numerous problems with the open-source components of Apple's operating system and fixed seven flaws with the MySQL database used by Macs. The patch also addressed flaws reported by the Month of Kernal Bugs (MoKB) and Month of Apple Bugs (MoAB) websites. This included 6 problems with Apple's disk image format, as well as problems with FlashPlayer and iPhoto.

That means one-third of the flaws corrected problems found by MoKB and MoAB, and these patches come just two weeks after a security researcher took Apple to task for its handling of security flaws. As I blogged then, Apple fixed a number of serious issues in QuickTime last week.

If you have not already set your Apple preferences to automatic update, the patches can be found here.

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