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Apple Patches Wireless Drivers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-on-track dept.

Frank writes "Apple quietly released a pair of patches today to its wireless drivers. The patches (one for PowerPC, one for Intel) address distinct buffer overflow vulnerabilities found during an internal audit in response to the claim that fuzzing the drivers resulted in an exploitable failure."

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  1. Re:This does NOT make the SecureWorks story true! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So now we should give credit to companies for announcing that there could be unspecified vulnerabilities in components!? Oooh. Oooh. There could be a vulnerability in Windows Vista's USB drivers! But I'm not going to say what it is! But now they have to credit me every time one is discovered and released!

    90% of the driver code processes wireless frames. Saying that there is a vulnerability in the wireless driver when processing malicious frames provides zero information on an actual vulnerability.

  2. "Quietly" by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Apple quietly released..."

    It's in Security Update where every other update goes, and a spokesperson even talked with MacWorld about it. What's quiet about the release?

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    "Sufferin' succotash."