When you upgrade to macOS Catalina, you get more of everything you love about Mac. Experience dedicated apps for music, TV, and podcasts. Smart new features in the apps you use every day. And Sidecar, which lets you use iPad as a second Mac display. Best of all, upgrading is free and easy.
Mac computers with Metal-capable graphics processors (GPUs) can upgrade to macOS Catalina.
Tech observers were seriously taken aback when Apple took several days to address a security flaw in OS X 10.9 Mavericks after quickly fixing the same bug in iOS. The vulnerability comes from an. May 19, 2020 Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 Installer download free. full Version retains all the features and functions that previous os x 10.9 download have. It's a beautiful system with trademark soft, but intuitive design, this time utilizing a soothing green palette, as well as great stability and tools a regular user would need. What is the latest operating system for Mac? Mac OS X Lion – 10.7 – also marketed as OS X Lion. OS X Mountain Lion – 10.8. OS X Mavericks – 10.9. OS X Yosemite – 10.10. OS X El Capitan – 10.11. MacOS Sierra – 10.12. MacOS High Sierra – 10.13. MacOS Mojave – 10.14.
Before you upgrade, we recommend that you back up your Mac. Then, if your Mac is running OS X Mavericks 10.9 or later, you can upgrade directly to macOS Catalina.
Go to Software Update in System Preferences to find the macOS Catalina upgrade. Click Upgrade Now and follow the onscreen instructions to begin your upgrade. If you don’t have broadband access, you can upgrade your Mac at any Apple Store.
If you’re running High Sierra (10.13), Sierra (10.12), or El Capitan (10.11), upgrade to macOS Catalina from the App Store. If you’re running Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion (10.8), you will need to upgrade to El Capitan (10.11) first. If you don’t have broadband access, you can upgrade your Mac at any Apple Store.
For details about your Mac model, click the Apple icon at the top left of your screen and choose About This Mac. These Mac models are compatible with macOS Catalina:
Requires a broadband internet connection and microphone (built-in or external).
Supported by the following Mac models:
Requires a microphone (built-in or external).
Requires a broadband internet connection.
Requires a Multi-Touch trackpad, Force Touch trackpad, Magic Trackpad, or Magic Mouse.
Force Touch gestures require a Force Touch trackpad.
VoiceOver gestures require a Multi-Touch trackpad, Force Touch trackpad, or Magic Trackpad.
Requires a FaceTime or iSight camera (built-in or external), or USB video class (UVC) camera.
Audio calls require a microphone (built-in or external) and broadband internet connection.
Video calls require a built-in FaceTime camera, an iSight camera (built-in or external), or a USB video class (UVC) camera; and broadband internet connection.
High Dynamic Range (HDR) video playback is supported by the following Mac models:
Dolby Atmos soundtrack playback is supported by the following Mac models:
Supported by the following Mac models:
Supported by all iPad models with Apple Pencil support:
Requires an iPhone or iPad with a Lightning connector and iOS 12 or later.
Requires an iPhone with iOS 13 or an iPad with iPadOS.
Requires an iPhone or iPad with a Lightning connector and iOS 8 or later.
Requires an iPhone or iPad with cellular connectivity, a Lightning connector, and iOS 8.1 or later. Requires Personal Hotspot service through your carrier.
Requires an iPhone or iPad with a Lightning connector and iOS 10 or later.
Supported by Mac models introduced in mid 2013 or later.
Requires an Apple Watch with watchOS 3 or later or an iPhone 5 or later.
Supported by Mac models introduced in mid 2013 or later.
Requires an Apple Watch with watchOS 6 or later or an iPhone 6s or later with iOS 13.
Requires MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, an iPhone 6 or later with iOS 10 or later, or an Apple Watch with watchOS 3 or later.
Requires an iPhone with iOS 8 or later and an activated carrier plan.
Requires an iPhone with iOS 8.1 or later and an activated carrier plan.
Requires an iPhone with iOS 12 or later and a configured Home app.
AirDrop to iOS and iPadOS devices requires an iPhone or iPad with a Lightning connector and iOS 7 or later.
AirPlay Mirroring requires an Apple TV (2nd generation or later).
AirPlay for web video requires an Apple TV (2nd generation or later).
Peer-to-peer AirPlay requires a Mac (2012 or later) and an Apple TV (3rd generation rev A, model A1469 or later) with Apple TV software 7.0 or later.
Requires an external storage device (sold separately).
Supported by the following Mac models:
Allows Boot Camp installations of Windows 10 on supported Mac models.
Requires Microsoft Office 365, Exchange 2016, Exchange 2013, or Exchange Server 2010. Installing the latest Service Packs is recommended.
Supports OS X 10.7 or later and Windows 7 or later.
Available only to persons age 13 or older in the U.S. and many other countries and regions.
For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page.
For more information about security, see the Apple Product Security page. You can encrypt communications with Apple using the Apple Product Security PGP Key.
Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible.
Released July 18, 2016
apache_mod_php
Available for: OS X Yosemite v10.10.5 and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code
Description: Multiple issues existed in PHP versions prior to 5.5.36. These were addressed by updating PHP to version 5.5.36.
CVE-2016-5093
CVE-2016-5094
CVE-2016-5096
CVE-2013-7456
Audio
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to cause a system denial of service
Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2016-4649 : Juwei Lin(@fuzzerDOTcn) of Trend Micro
Audio
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-4647 : Juwei Lin(@fuzzerDOTcn) of Trend Micro
Audio
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to determine kernel memory layout
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2016-4648 : Juwei Lin(@fuzzerDOTcn) of Trend Micro; Jack Tang and Moony Li of Trend Micro working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Audio
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to the disclosure of user information
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed through improved bounds checking.
CVE-2016-4646 : Steven Seeley of Source Incite working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
bsdiff
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A local attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An integer overflow existed in bspatch. This issue was addressed through improved bounds checking.
CVE-2014-9862 : an anonymous researcher
CFNetwork
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to view sensitive user information
Description: A permissions issue existed in the handling of web browser cookies. This issue was addressed through improved restrictions.
CVE-2016-4645 : Abhinav Bansal of Zscaler Inc.
CFNetwork Credentials
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive user information
Description: A downgrade issue existed with HTTP authentication credentials saved in Keychain. This issue was addressed by storing the authentication types with the credentials.
CVE-2016-4644 : Jerry Decime coordinated via CERT
CFNetwork Proxies
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive user information
Description: A validation issue existed in the parsing of 407 responses. This issue was addressed through improved response validation.
CVE-2016-4643 : Xiaofeng Zheng of Blue Lotus Team, Tsinghua University; Jerry Decime coordinated via CERT
CFNetwork Proxies
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: An application may unknowingly send a password unencrypted over the network
Description: Proxy authentication incorrectly reported HTTP proxies received credentials securely. This issue was addressed through improved warnings.
CVE-2016-4642 : Jerry Decime coordinated via CERT
CoreGraphics
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to elevate privileges
Description: An out-of-bounds read issue existed that led to the disclosure of kernel memory. This was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2016-4652 : Yubin Fu of Tencent KeenLab working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
CoreGraphics
Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-4637 : Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos (talosintel.com/vulnerability-reports)
FaceTime
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to cause a relayed call to continue transmitting audio while appearing as if the call terminated
Description: User interface inconsistencies existed in the handling of relayed calls. These issues were addressed through improved FaceTime display logic.
CVE-2016-4635 : Martin Vigo
Graphics Drivers
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2016-4634 : Stefan Esser of SektionEins
ImageIO
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Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-4629 : Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos (talosintel.com/vulnerability-reports)
CVE-2016-4630 : Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos (talosintel.com/vulnerability-reports)
ImageIO
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service
Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-4632 : Evgeny Sidorov of Yandex
ImageIO
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-4631 : Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos (talosintel.com/vulnerability-reports)
ImageIO
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-7705 : Craig Young of Tripwire VERT
Entry added November 30, 2017
Intel Graphics Driver
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-4633 : Marco Grassi (@marcograss) of KeenLab (@keen_lab), Tencent
IOHIDFamily
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2016-4626 : Stefan Esser of SektionEins
IOSurface
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A use-after-free was addressed through improved memory management.
CVE-2016-4625 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Kernel
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-1863 : Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
CVE-2016-4653 : Ju Zhu of Trend Micro
CVE-2016-4582 : Shrek_wzw and Proteas of Qihoo 360 Nirvan Team
Kernel
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to cause a system denial of service
Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2016-1865 : Marco Grassi (@marcograss) of KeenLab (@keen_lab), Tencent, CESG
Libc
Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow existed within the 'link_ntoa()' function in linkaddr.c. This issue was addressed through additional bounds checking.
CVE-2016-6559 : Apple
Entry added January 10, 2017
libc++abi
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with root privileges
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-4621 : an anonymous researcher
libexpat
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted XML may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-0718 : Gustavo Grieco
LibreSSL
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code
Description: Multiple issues existed in LibreSSL before 2.2.7. These were addressed by updating LibreSSL to version 2.2.7.
CVE-2016-2108 : Huzaifa Sidhpurwala (Red Hat), Hanno Böck, David Benjamin (Google), Mark Brand and Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
CVE-2016-2109 : Brian Carpenter
libxml2
Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in libxml2
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2015-8317 : Hanno Boeck
CVE-2016-1836 : Wei Lei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University
CVE-2016-4447 : Wei Lei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University
CVE-2016-4448 : Apple
CVE-2016-4483 : Gustavo Grieco
CVE-2016-4614 : Nick Wellnhofer
CVE-2016-4615 : Nick Wellnhofer
CVE-2016-4616 : Michael Paddon
Entry updated June 5, 2017
libxml2
Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted XML document may lead to disclosure of user information
Description: An access issue existed in the parsing of maliciously crafted XML files. This issue was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2016-4449 : Kostya Serebryany
libxslt
Available for: OS X Mavericks v10.9.5, OS X Yosemite v10.10.5, and OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in libxslt
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-1683 : Nicolas Grégoire
CVE-2016-1684 : Nicolas Grégoire
CVE-2016-4607 : Nick Wellnhofer
CVE-2016-4608 : Nicolas Grégoire
CVE-2016-4609 : Nick Wellnhofer
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CVE-2016-4610 : Nick Wellnhofer
Entry updated April 11, 2017
Login Window
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-4638 : Yubin Fu of Tencent KeenLab working with TrendMicro's Zero Day Initiative
Login Window
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code leading to compromise of user information
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2016-4640 : an anonymous researcher working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative
Entry updated November 16, 2016
Login Window
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code leading to the compromise of user information
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-4641 : Yubin Fu of Tencent KeenLab working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Login Window
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A local user may be able to cause a denial of service
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-4639 : Yubin Fu of Tencent KeenLab working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
OpenSSL
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code
Description: Multiple issues existed in OpenSSL. These issues were resolved by backporting the fixes from OpenSSL 1.0.2h/1.0.1 to OpenSSL 0.9.8.
CVE-2016-2105 : Guido Vranken
CVE-2016-2106 : Guido Vranken
CVE-2016-2107 : Juraj Somorovsky
CVE-2016-2108 : Huzaifa Sidhpurwala (Red Hat), Hanno Böck, David Benjamin (Google), Mark Brand and Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
CVE-2016-2109 : Brian Carpenter
CVE-2016-2176 : Guido Vranken
QuickTime
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted SGI file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2016-4601 : Ke Liu of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab
QuickTime
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Network connection for mac os x. Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted Photoshop document may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2016-4599 : Ke Liu of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab
QuickTime
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted FlashPix Bitmap Image may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-4596 : Ke Liu of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab
CVE-2016-4597 : Ke Liu of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab
CVE-2016-4600 : Ke Liu of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab
CVE-2016-4602 : Ke Liu of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab
QuickTime
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2016-4598 : Ke Liu of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab
Safari Login AutoFill
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A user's password may be visible on screen
Description: An issue existed in Safari's password auto-fill. This issue was addressed through improved matching of form fields.
Gimpshop for mac os x yosemite 10 10 5. CVE-2016-4595 : Jonathan Lewis from DeARX Services (PTY) LTD
Sandbox Profiles
Available for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later
Impact: A local application may be able to access the process list
Description: An access issue existed with privileged API calls. This issue was addressed through additional restrictions.
CVE-2016-4594 : Stefan Esser of SektionEins
OS X El Capitan v10.11.6 includes the security content of Safari 9.1.2.