Apple issues Java updates for OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8

Apple has released a security update for the Apple-supported Java runtime for OS X, which many users have installed on their systems. Java for OS X is available for Apple's latest three OS X releases starting with Snow Leopard. The update should be available through Apple's Software Update service (in the Apple menu).

This update was released by Oracle last week to tackle a few outstanding vulnerabilities (separate from those recently found in its latest Java 7 runtime), but since Java 6 for OS X is maintained and distributed by Apple, OS X users have had to wait until Apple issued the update. Apple has released one updater for OS X 10.6 and one for OS X 10.7 or later that will bring the Java 6 runtime installation in OS X systems up to the latest version, version 1.6_35.