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Apple iTunes Hit With a New Critical Flaw
Jameson writes "Apple has released a new iTunes version to correct a security vulnerability reported by Mark Litchfield. FrSIRT and Secunia marked the flaw as "critical", because it can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system via maliciously-crafted MPEG4 file.
iTunes 4.8 addresses this issue by improving the validation checks used when loading MPEG4 files."
Maybe this is a sign that apple is moving to fast. They are expanding in every direction (new os, new apps, new features in every app, new hardware). It will be difficult for Apple to keep the quality high as the volume keeps increasing.
Indeed. The quality of Apple's most basic software The Finder has dumfounded experts everywhere with it's amazing and unique attributes, but it's the Finder's rock solid stability which has won hearts. Reports of arbitrary crashing, arbitrary icon replacement, corruption of data on .dmg files, not connecting to other networks properly and having no proper error handling for bad connections to those networks, the lack of realtime update of files, no read/write for ftp volumes, arbitrary changing and resetting of directory views and changing of default options to manage them were all lies constructed by industrial sabateurs.
Other great software innovations by Apple include Dashboard which although indentical in every conceivable way to Konfabulator is actually an extension on an idea of Desk Accessories that Apple neglected as a technology for about 15 years, then suddenly decided to remember sometime recently. It is totally absolutely realistic that Dashboard would have existed exactly like it does if Konfabulator had not appeared, and anyone who says not is a troll.
Experts also applaude Apple's other revolutionary piece of software called 'Preview'. Preview shows Apple's daring break with tradition when it comes to viewing PDFs by eliminating the de-facto standard keyboard shortcut for quick panning and scrolling; the Space bar, or the number 2 shortcut "alt" with Command 1 to put you into scroll tool mode.
Also Apple impressed everyone with preview's incredible random size picture display technology. Tired of looking at a picture the size it actually is ? No problem, fire up Preview and open a bunch of files and watch your images appear at an amazing arbitrary jumble of different sizes from thumbnail to print res.
Also useful was that Preview cannot have pictures dragged directly onto it's windows, which Apple chose to express it's superior quality to competing products.
Preview is also 110% stable and never crashes no matter what. Reports that Preview crashes with any slightly dodgy jpeg, or crashes if it can't access a volume are complete lies.