Apple on Tuesday released a QuickTime update to fix a security flaw that was used to breach a MacBook Pro at a recent security conference. The media player vulnerability lies in QuickTime for Java, Apple said in a security alert. The hole could be exploited through a rigged Web site and let an attacker commandeer computers running both Mac OS X and Windows, the Mac maker said.
Description: An implementation issue exists in QuickTime for Java, which may allow reading or writing out of the bounds of the allocated heap. By enticing a user to visit a web page containing a maliciously-crafted Java applet, an attacker can trigger the issue which may lead to arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by performing additional bounds checking when creating QTPointerRef objects. Credit to Dino Dai Zovi working with TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative for reporting this issue.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305446
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798
Good for Apple for giving credit to the guy that discovered the vulnerability!
And to eliminate this crap about Java:
CVE-ID: CVE-2007-2175
Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9, Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 SP4
It’s QuickTime’s problem, not Java being the culprit, which has been previously reported.
> It’s QuickTime’s problem, not Java being the culprit,
> which has been previously reported.
“The media player vulnerability lies in QuickTime for Java”
Right… I see the words “Quicktime” in that sentence. Seems to me it is a “Quicktime for Java” problem. Seems you can’t remove the “Java” from the equation.
QuickTime for Java exists on both platforms because it’s the Java bridge to QuickTime.
If you check all the Apple security update, they always put the credit for those who found the bug.
Agnustic repeatedly turns the key on the little McSoft Wind-up toys and prepares to watch them all march around in mechanical rain-man fashion saying, “OS X sucks!”
It was a small download and update. Good to know Apple didn’t take from six month to a year to patch it.
Edited 2007-05-01 23:42
Popular, it really gets the news now. I guess all them people claiming bigger market share you will get hacked alot, it’s just nonsense.
OSAlert has dumped on it’s site every security flaw in OS X so it must be popular or they just dont have anything better to report.
they probably don’t have anything better to report
Well, latest market share figures can be found here:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2
According to this the Mac platform is upon 6.21% and Linux is at 0.80% or almost 8 times smaller. The Mac computer platform is now the fastest growing personal computer platform in the world – joined by the Apple Reatil Stores as the world fastest growing retail chain.
Edited 2007-05-02 00:48
Mmm .. Dunno about that.
According to your link, Vista has already surpassed the MacIntel line and is chasing down the rest of the installed base on the PowerPC. So I’d say Vista is the fastest growing platform. Or are you lumping Vista in with the rest of Windows?
I think he was right to lump Vista in w/ the rest of Windows. Vista is not a platform, Windows is a platform.