SillyDog701

[Antony]

Apple today released Safari 3.2 for Windows and Mac OS X, an update to Safari 3.1.2 released in June.

Apple states the following in Software Update

This update is recommended for all Safari users and features protection from fraudulent phishing websites and better identification of online businesses. This update also includes the latest security updates.

For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Safari 3.2 is available from Apple Safari web page, and is available for both Mac OS X and Windows.

Safari 3.2 addressed following issues:

• Multiple vulnerabilities in zlib 1.2.2
• Processing an XML document may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
• Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
• Viewing a maliciously crafted TIFF image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
• Viewing a large maliciously crafted JPEG image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
• Viewing a maliciously crafted image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
• Sensitive information may be disclosed to a local console user
• Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
• Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to the disclosure of sensitive information

Apple first released Safari 3 (public beta) to Windows users in June last year, and released Safari 3.1 to both Windows and Mac OS X users on 18th March 2008.

Safari 3.2 can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/safari/ . The system requirement: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later, or Windows XP or Vista with 256MB RAM or more on a 500 MHz or faster CPU.

For the changes on Safari 3.2, please refer to About the security content of Safari 3.2 page.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

[Antony]

A small and useful addition built onto Safari 3.2


The name of the certificate is shown automatically when entering a secured site (https), making it even easier to identify if the connect is in SSL.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

[J-M]

You can examine the entire User Agent string via this post's UA information (posted with Mac).

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.26.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2 Safari/525.26.12

[Fulvio]

I, just, read this.
I did not go into the comments, but there may be a problem, here.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20

[NikoBellic]

Just wondering, how come Apple's Safari browser is announced in a forum labelled "Firefox, SeaMonkey and Netscape" ? Wouldn't it be more appropriate talked about in the Mac OS and Apple forum, much like IE is discussed in the "Windows (and Microsoft talk) forum" ?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009030617 Firefox/3.0.7 CometBird/3.0.7