Security flaw hits Safari for Windows only hours after release
section: common, for your questions: KezNews forum, 12.6.2007
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversThanks to marct for this article. Security researcher Aviv Raff claims to have found the first security vulnerability in Apple's Safari browser on Windows only hours after the software was released.
Raff tested the application against a standard browser security testing tool. "A first glance at the debugger showed me that this memory corruption might be exploitable. Although I'll have to dig more to be sure of that," he wrote on his blog.
Apple unveiled a beta of a Windows version of its Safari web browser on Monday. The final product is scheduled for release in October. In a keynote presentation at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, chief executive Steve Jobs claimed that the browser would run up to twice as fast as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but did not mention Internet Explorer's security record.
Apple lists the browser's security as one of 12 reasons "why you'll love Safari" and adds that "Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one ".
Raff worked on the "Month of Apple bugs" earlier this year, during which researchers published details on a slew of vulnerabilities in the software.
It was intended to challenge Apple's security record. He took the company's boasting about Safari's security as a personal challenge.
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Comments(7)
typical of apple software. they are rapidly losing the little market they have.
what shty product from apple he say we made it to be secure from day 1 ...... but
it s flawed in day 1
ha ha ha ha ha for apple. stick with your own kind apple.
hahaha they just released a rotten apple.
alright guys this is just some beta stuff. the platform windows is already vulnurable so
dont blame jobs for safari vulnurability. if you wanna talk about safari, use it on mac.
you dont even need anti-virus of whatever...peace
why are you guys ditching software that's still in beta???? have you any of you guys
used windows when it was in beta??? do you guys have any idea what beta software is??????
god.
tried installing safari on vista32 and vista64 would not work
Windows 7 RTM 7600.16385.090713-1255 HERE !
Apple going downhill
By Bill Gates on 12.06.2007 - 19:06