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Apple Responds to MOAB

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that-was-pretty-fast dept.

frdmfghtr writes "Apple has released what appears to be the first security update as a result of the "Month of Apple Bugs." While the Apple site doesn't explicitly say that the fix was a result of the MOAB, it does point to a sample Quicktime file that triggers the overflow flaw (well, sort of...it says the file is there but doesn't provide any links)."

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  1. MOAB? by Southpaw018 · · Score: 4, Funny

    First thing I thought of was this.

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    1. Re:MOAB? by Penguinisto · · Score: 4, Funny
      Could be worse... all this time I kept thinking that Apple somehow added Detroit Lockers and a new set of leaf springs to its Macs in response to Moab...

      (Guess that's what I get for living in Utah and owning a Jeep...)

      /P

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  2. Doom B by bryan1945 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Day of obvious Microsoft Bugs?

    Sorry, couldn't resist.

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  3. Cue the Iraqi Information Minister.... by bmajik · · Score: 4, Funny

    I speak the truth! There are No Bugs In The Macintosh! Those whom you have heard saying there are bugs? Where are they now? They are not in the Macintosh. They are roasting in the stomach of the Jobs.

    Even if there were Bugs in the Mac OS, the infidels would not find them. We would know about them first and Fix them forthwright. They will never defeat us for 1000 generations.

    We welcome the discovery of bugs in the Macintosh! We have set a trap for them and when they fall into it, we will be victorious, Jobs willing! We will ensnare them with the traps we have set and will cast them out of the kernel and back to where they came from!

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  4. Silly Crackers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    They've succeeded in furthering the silly notion that OSX is more secure. :( Here we have 20 some odd bugs and not a SINGLE disastrous outbreak among OSX computers. Will someone please find the ball and GET ON IT?!? Maybe they'll have some amazingly earth shattering ones towards the end of the month.

    If this little act of theirs doesn't result in a major worm/virus outbreak, then that means that even if you SHOW people how to break the system they still can't, again furthering the notion that OSX is somehow more secure than Windows!!

  5. Re:So...Is The QT Flaw the Only Notable Bug? by solevita · · Score: 5, Funny
    Also: is Steve Jobs technically a bug or a feature?

    I'm told he's the irreplaceable core of Apple inc, so I guess he's neither a bug nor a feature; he's Apple's Internet Explorer.
  6. Re:So...Is The QT Flaw the Only Notable Bug? by powerlord · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm told he's the irreplaceable core of Apple inc, so I guess he's neither a bug nor a feature; he's Apple's Internet Explorer.
    So what you're saying is, you don't want to use him all the time, otherwise you'll end up in a world of hurt, but every now and then there is a site you just have to trot him out for?

    Oh ... like ... say the MacWorld Keynote? :)
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  7. Re:So...Is The QT Flaw the Only Notable Bug? by solevita · · Score: 1, Funny

    I like it! But, I was also thinking that he suffers from exploitable (pancreatic) overflows.

    Bye bye karma...