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Apple patches QuickTime for Macs, Windows | |
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| Time: 05:10 EST/10:10 GMT | News Source: News.com | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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Apple Computer on Tuesday released an update to its QuickTime media player software that fixes seven security flaws, all of them serious. The QuickTime vulnerabilities affect both Windows and Apple Mac OS X machines. Apple's update comes on the same day the company announced new digital music and video plans. Also, Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for Office and Windows flaws. The security flaws in QuickTime are all due to the application's failure to properly check and sanitize files in several formats: H.264, QuickTime, FLC, FlashPix and SGI. An attacker could craft a malicious file in any of those formats which, when opened, would fully compromise a vulnerable system or cause QuickTime to crash. | ||
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| #1 By 32132 (142.32.208.238) at 9/13/2006 2:36:13 PM |
| Are they in triple digits for quicktime security holes now? |
| #2 By 37047 (216.191.227.68) at 9/13/2006 3:10:12 PM |
| You are thinking of Windows XP. I started to count all the updates and patches for Windows XP on my current development system, but lost interest after I hit 104. There were still several pages to go, in the history view. And that does not include any of the Office 2003 updates. |
| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 9/13/2006 3:16:27 PM |
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#1: At least Apple fixes their flaws. MS would let you hang out to dry forever unless it was a DRM patch. MS has yet to fix the zero-day Word flaw and the compressed data corruption flaw, but the DRM patch was done practically overnight.
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| #4 By 32132 (142.32.208.238) at 9/13/2006 7:26:28 PM |
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"but lost interest after I hit 104"
Not too bad for a 5 year old OS. The Linux 2.6 kernel by itself is over 100 security holes in 2.5 years - half the time. If you add in fixes it must be over 1000. http://secunia.com/product/2719/?task=statistics (Some are multiples) This post was edited by NotParker on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 19:27. |
| #5 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 9/13/2006 9:58:34 PM |
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3 more patches for the two most used software efforts (Windows and Office) on the planet... and SEVEN more for little old quicktime. Not to mention the ?109? patched in the OS X update last month.
Sounds about right. latch, have some osX swiss cheese with your whine. This post was edited by mooresa56 on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 21:59. |
| #6 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 9/14/2006 9:21:41 AM |
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Geez, can either one of you post more than 5 words without having to edit it?
No, Mini-moore, I don't want fries with that. |
| #7 By 47914 (24.225.231.107) at 9/14/2006 1:29:37 PM |
| # 6 How is editing their posts relevant to the topic? Perhaps you should review your posts (lke the one above) after typing. I think in this case you should have edited out everything since it's irrelevant. |
| #8 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 9/14/2006 6:17:45 PM |
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latch@3sugars - victim of a drive-by slam. i love it.
Does anyone know if it also counts as a quicktime security update, when itunes releases a fix? |
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