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Exploit discovered in Safari

Postby Antony » Mon 17 May, 2004 10:24 pm

Clearly, there's no 100% safe and secure software available...

Safari has had a new security issue uveiled by insecure.ws. There is an example link on that page which demonstrates the potential of this problem. There are two reccomended steps you can take to protect yourself:
- disable auto opening of safe files in Safari (bad protection)
- change the help helper in InternetConfig (better protection)

More on this in apple.slashdot.org.

(Based on Disko's news article on AppleTalk Australia, used with permission.)
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.1
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Postby DJGM » Tue 18 May, 2004 6:54 am

There's also an article about this vulnerability on the MacCentralwebsite.

Apparently, this vulnerability also affects Internet Explorer v5.2.x . . .



(No Gecko based browsers were harmed in the reporting of this security hole!)
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