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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. QuickTime runs on Windows too... by ClaraBow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    so doesn't this effect it also?

    1. Re:QuickTime runs on Windows too... by ClaraBow · · Score: 1, Redundant

      Okay, since I jumped the gun, I will answer my own questions: RTFA, yes it does!

  2. Re:At this rate by jokell82 · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Explaining that Quicktime is actually a third party application that is bundled with the OS not the OS itself.
    Actually that's (partially) true. It's not third party since it's developed by Apple, but the fact that it also affects Windows shows that it's not an OS X bug, but a Quicktime bug.

    But as another comment has pointed out, this is a month of Apple bugs, not OS X bugs.
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    I dunno who it is
    but it prolly is fhqwhgads.