Security Update 2018-003 (Sierra and El Capitan)

[agen (Agen Schmitz)]

Originally published at: https://tidbits.com/watchlist/security-update-2018-003-sierra-and-el-capitan/

Patches a number of vulnerabilities in Apple’s last two operating systems. (Free, various sizes)

[Jammy]

Unable to update to it on latest 10.12.6 through the App Store. It shows the update but when I click on the grey update button nothing happens. No downloading or anything. The other weird thing is the update only reveals itself if I first click on another tab such as “featured” then click back again on the updates tab and only then will it show up.

I was able to download the dmg from the Apple website, but I think I’m going to hold off on it because of the odd behavior from the App Store.

[alvarnell]

I had a similar experience a couple of days ago with several app updates, but I had already applied Security Update 2018-003 the week before.

I know of no reason to hold up with installing the .dmg version and a half dozen reason why you should install it immediately, listed here:

https://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2018/Jun/msg00000.html

-Al-

[ace (Adam Engst)]

@Jammy

I was able to download the dmg from the Apple website, but I think I’m going to hold off on it because of the odd behavior from the App Store.

I’d recommend installing from the .dmg—the way you describe the problems sounds very much like an App Store quirk, not anything related to the update.