RSSApple Patches QuickTime Flaw
By the Betanews Staff | Published January 24, 2007, 12:09 PM
Apple patched a QuickTime exploit Tuesday that was revealed by researchers who were investigating bugs within the Macintosh operating system and third-party products for it as part of the "Month of Apple Bugs" program. In total, 31 vulnerabilities will be listed. In this specific flaw, a specially crafted Web site could be used to cause a buffer overflow vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code.
The fix would force QuickTime to perform additional validation of the RTSP URL, which should prevent the application from launching malicious ones. As of Wednesday, the QuickTime bug was the only issue patched by Apple itself.
I have to smile at this story. Apple disciples have always said the product is perfect when it hits the shelves....well..maybe not sooo perfect.
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|No, the disciples usually just point out that security isn't really a problem on a Mac, not that there aren't any holes. Bottom line is, no-one writes viruses for Mac. :P
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|what about quicktime alternative does it have the same flaw http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1049831315
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|Thats what I want to know too.
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|What, a worm in the Apple? Noooooooo!
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