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Apple Safari On Windows Broken On First Day

Posted by kdawson on from the bigger-they-come dept.

An anonymous reader writes "David Maynor, infamous for the Apple Wi-Fi hack, has discovered bugs in the Windows version of Safari mere hours after it was released. He notes in the blog that his company does not report vulnerabilities to Apple. His claimed catch for 'an afternoon of idle futzing': 4 DoS bugs and 2 remote execution vulnerabilities." Separately, within 2 hours Thor Larholm found a URL protocol handler command injection vulnerability that allows remote command execution.

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  1. Re:He notes in the blog that his company does not by timmarhy · · Score: 1, Troll

    he already outlined why he did it - apple threatened to sue if he disassembled the airport, so he used a clone no name model which used the exact same drivers (where the problem lays).

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  2. Re:shooting the messenger is now + 5 insightful? by siddesu · · Score: 1, Troll

    releasing software with remotely exploitable bugs to the general public to the fanfare of the press (release of safari is in all major news) by a large company is surely a more irresponsible act than a bug report about the said software.