Apple Patches QuickTime Flaw

KingFishKingFish
edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
Apple released a fix for the QuickTime issue along with patches for seven other flaws in the Mac OS X that could lead to security bypass, exposure of sensitive information, Denial-of-Service attacks and system compromise.
According to the advisory, the QuickTime flaws were detected in the way the media player decodes BMP image types. A successful attacker could overwrite heap memory and potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code hidden in an image. Independent research firm Secunia rates the Mac OS X vulnerabilities as "highly critical." The mega patch also plugs a hole in the operating system's AFP Server, which can be exploited by guest users to disconnect AFP volumes by sending specially crafted SessionDestroy packets.
Source: Internet News

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  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited October 2004
    Apple Patches QuickTime Flaw

    I was expecting the article to read, "Apple, unable to find anything useful for their software, canned the massive glitch called "QuickTime". Geeks the world over cried tears of joy."

    So close, yet so far away :(
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