My MacBookPro uses OS X 10.6.8 - do I need to upgrade to avoid the recent security flaw, and if so, must I upgrade to OS X Mavericks?

I use OS X 10.6.8 on my MacBook Pro - do I need to upgrade to avoid the recent SST security flaw?  And if so, do I need to upgrade to OS X Mavericks in order to get the recent Version 10.9.2 fix?

There's an article here that addresses that question. You don't need to be running Mavericks for a security update, but you need at least Lion according to this:
http://www.macrumors.com
It's the second article.

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