hoakley January 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave 10.14.3 and Security Updates for High Sierra and Sierra released

Apple has released macOS Mojave version 10.14.3, together with Security Update 2018-001 for High Sierra and Sierra.

The Mojave update is again substantial, around 2.3 GB (standalone 1.99 GB), despite Apple giving no details whatsoever of its changes, apart from one improvement to Kerberos authentication which is mainly of interest to enterprise users.

Some of the more significant security fixes include: remote initiation of FaceTime calls, six kernel bugs (five of which affect all three supported versions of macOS), and a vulnerability to crafted SQLite queries.

Full details of security fixes are given here.

This update also bring Safari 12.0.3, which has several security fixes to WebKit, but still cannot open local HTML files without error.

For T2-equipped Macs, this brings an EFI firmware update, taking the iMac Pro (at least) to version 220.240.2.0.0 and iBridge: 16.16.3133.0.0,0. There don’t appear to be any other new EFI firmware updates included.

There is also a Gatekeeper update which has been pushed at the same time. The main updates don’t include that: you must download and install the Gatekeeper update after update macOS.

Standalone updaters are now available for Mojave 10.14.3 delta, Mojave 10.14.3 Combo, High Sierra 10.13.6, and Sierra 10.12.6.

Note that there was a problem in getting the 10.14.3 Combo updater to work on some versions of Mojave: see the comment below. Hopefully Apple has fixed that (or very shortly will).

(Update 5, posted 1653 UTC 23 January 2019)

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Philip Noguchi on January 23, 2019 at 1:35 am

Howard,
There is something squirrel with the combo update. On several of my machines I get “macOS 10.14.3 Update can’t be installed on this disk”. A thread on MacRumors would seem to indicate that the noncombo updater if downloaded works. After installing the noncombo updater I was able to install the combo, although I haven’t a clue if that is worthwhile.

Phil

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  hoakley on January 23, 2019 at 8:34 am
  
  I’m sorry to hear that, Phil, but delighted that you found that workaround. There shouldn’t be any need for the Combo updater after the delta has been installed, but it won’t do any harm.
  Howard.
  
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nikbongard on January 23, 2019 at 6:02 am

I installed the 10.12.6 Security update today on an iMac (27″, late 2012) and it will barely start up, let alone launch any applications. I reinstalled the system from Internet Recovery, only to find the same issue (and the security update available once again). I’m going to upgrade to High Sierra, in hopes to fix this…. Might wait to install the security update once that is done. Boo hiss!

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  hoakley on January 23, 2019 at 8:33 am
  
  I’m sorry to hear that. I haven’t heard of a more general issue with that Security Update, but hope that High Sierra sorts it out for you.
  Howard.
  
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Manoli on January 23, 2019 at 1:43 pm

Good morning Howard and everyone,

I can just confirm the same issue here, with macOSUpdCombo10.14.3

It says: “macOS 10.14.3 Update can’t be installed on this disk. This volume does not meet the requirements for this update.”

I’m on my iMac17,1 with macOS 10.14.2 (18C54) running smooth.

My Startup Disk (“Macintosh HD”) is APFS Volume (within APFS Container made as Fusion of 120GB SSD and 2TB HDD) where 1.4TB is free (and available).

Until today I had never problem installing any combo update. For the time being I have no idea what’s going on and probably no one here, yet…

Looks weird, I think better to hold with an update now.

Have good luck everyone.

Manoli

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  hoakley on January 23, 2019 at 1:45 pm
  
  Try the delta update instead of you can.
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Manoli on January 23, 2019 at 2:43 pm

You are right. Delta update works. My iMac is back up and running with 10.14.3 I just hope this update didn’t break anything. 😉 So far, looks good.

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Philip Noguchi on January 23, 2019 at 4:45 pm

From Eau Rouge on discussions.apple.com (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250106871):

“Well I have found out why the Combo won’t install.

There is an error in the distribution file, as part of the installation the distribution file runs a number of checks to determine if the update can be installed. One of these is the Volume check, so it checks the build number of your install of MacOS Mojave.

In the distribution file there is a list or array of the previous builds of the OS. The array in this Combo is very short so quite a few build numbers are missing and therefore the error is generated.

You could expand the 10.14.3Combo.pkg, using pkgutil in Terminal, edit the distribution file to include the build number of your install of Mojave, then use pkgutil to revert the expanded folder to a new .pkg and it should install. I did and it was successful.

Or you could wait until Apple sorts it out. Or just use software update.
Crikey.”

I especially like the last sentence…

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  hoakley on January 23, 2019 at 4:50 pm
  
  Thank you. That’s very helpful.
  I hope that Apple is fixing that as I type…
  Howard.
  
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