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Month of Apple Bugs - First Bug Unveiled

Posted by Zonk on from the apple-must-be-so-proud dept.

ens0niq writes "The first bug (a Quicktime rtsp URL Handler Stack-based Buffer Overflow) of the Month of Apple Bugs has been unveiled — as previously promised — by LMH and Kevin Finisterre. From the FAQ: 'This initiative aims to serve as an effort to improve Mac OS X, uncovering and finding security flaws in different Apple software and third-party applications designed for this operating system. A positive side-effect, probably, will be a more concerned (security-wise) user-base and better practices from the management side of Apple.'"

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  1. No problem! by fo0bar · · Score: 4, Funny

    This isn't a problem because it has been proven that only Windows can get viruses. Therefore, because it's not possible for viruses to spread with MacOS, security threats are irrelevant.

    Please, try the veal.

    1. Re:No problem! by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny

      As such, we're still puttering around somewhere between the middle and end of the nineteenth.

      Computer security was much better in the nineteenth Century, when computers didn't exist.

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      ... and then they built the supercollider.
  2. Re:And a negative side effect? by Scoria · · Score: 1, Funny

    He would, but they were all absorbed by Steve Jobs and his reality distortion field. Sorry.

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    Do you like German cars?
  3. Re:At this rate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If intel only could the hole be in quicktime for windows too, and a possible Duel OS Virus

    Sun to the rescue...to make it cross platform just write the virus in Java!
  4. OK by WiseMuse · · Score: 2, Funny

    Q: What's worse than finding a worm in your apple? A: Finding a bug in your MAC.

  5. Re:QuickTime runs on Windows too... by The+Lone+Man · · Score: 0, Funny

    What's wrong with all the haters? No balls to show who they really are so they hide behind the AC moniker. Pussy!
    Unless this is sarcasm... does anybody else see the irony here?