Security Updates, Notices for Mac OS X

Myrrh writes "eEye reports they discovered a heap overflow in QuickTime 6.5, which 'allows a remote attacker to reliably overwrite heap memory with user-controlled data and execute arbitrary code.' Now's a swell time to visit Apple and download the updates for both programs." Also, Apple today released Security Update 2004-05-03, which includes updates for AFP Server, CoreFoundation, and IPSec, and is, like the QuickTime 6.5.1 update, available via Software Update.

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Re:bad updates

[lullabud]

Please show one Windows update that erased your entire hard drive (like iTunes), or prevented it from booting (like iTunes for Windows and one OS-X update), or any of the other SEVERE issues that Apple continually has with updates.

It was either the IE 5 or IE 5.5 update on win98 that corrupted the OS so that it needed to be reloaded. When I worked at Gateway we told people NOT to update their browsers if they weren't having problems because we were sick of having to FFR (Fdisk, Format, Reload) people's systems when the patch made their systems unbootable.