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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. Re:And a negative side effect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Could you give some examples of Apple suing people to cover up security holes then?

  2. Doesn't work for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just tried this on my MacBook Pro using the provided QTL files and ruby scripts, but none of them seem to have the claimed effect. Anybody else already tried this?