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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. Are u kidding by udderly · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hell's bells, I can't worry about this trifling matter--I just heard on the radio that this Emerald Ass Borer Beetle is coming to my area. It has to be stopped! I'm going to call my congressman immediately...Doh! Never mind.

  2. On another relevant note... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The new set of "Jeopardy" looks really ugly.

  3. Re:microsoft does this and you shit a brick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's odd, I rarely read slashdot trolls but yours kinda turned me on, (altho I kept imagining a girl wrote it, trying to ignore some parts)
      Cheers

  4. Re:microsoft does this and you shit a brick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You forgot the last part.

    I then hit reload on slashdot, checked for any new articles, saw a dupe about a new a new iPod killer and then went back to the same alt binaries group looking for more stories like the one above..