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Safari 3 Beta Updated, Security Problems Fixed

Posted by Zonk on from the closing-holes-in-the-apple dept.

Llywelyn writes "Apple has released an update to the Windows Safari 3 Beta. According to Macworld the updates '...include correction for a command injection vulnerability, corrected with additional processing and validation of URLs that could otherwise lead to an unexpected termination of the browser; an out-of-bounds memory read issue; and a race condition that can allow cross-site scripting using a JavaSscript [sic] exploit.' It is available through either the Apple Safari download site or through Apple's Software Update."

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  1. Well! by drhamad · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's about time! ;) What took them so long!

    --
    -Daniel
  2. Re:Horrible International Language support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well duh! Only westerners go on safaris...

  3. I wonder if... by Ant+P. · · Score: 4, Funny

    Konqueror's Win32 release will be as big a disaster.

  4. That goes without saying by Nymz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gee, 1-day service. Sounds like Apple is a lot more serious about security fixes than Microsoft.
    (but then again, we already knew that)
    Yep, sounds like the choice of browser will be obivious. Slashdot should publish statistics of which browsers are used by Slashdotters to view Slashdot.
    1. Re:That goes without saying by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yep, sounds like the choice of browser will be obivious. Slashdot should publish statistics of which browsers are used by Slashdotters to view Slashdot. Here you go:
      * .01% - Safari (Windows)
      * .02% - Opera (All)
      * 03% - Cowboy Neal (Windows)
      * 14% - Internet Explorer
      * 19% - Cowbow Neal (Linux)
      * 22% - Safari (Macintosh)
      * 35% - FireFox (Windows)
      * 99% - FireFox (Linux)
      * Profit!
  5. Excellent! Just one more thing... by Revotron · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now can they make it not suck?

  6. If it was True OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    the COMMUNITY would have had it fixed
    and fixed WAY faster copyleft knockoff $Apple$

    I, for one, refuse to acknowledge the EXISTANCE of closed source browsers.

    Live Free or Die

  7. Re:Browser Statistics by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is one large group of browsers, as 192.03% of anything is pretty big. Well, we are talking about Web 2.0 (which should equal 200% IIRC). I guess I forgot
    * 7.97% - Other

    Anyone have a download link to the latest version of Cowboy Neal? I'd post it again, but I don't want to receive another DMCA takedown notice.
  8. Re:not worth it by paanta · · Score: 4, Funny
    it's likely to just disappear and not make it back onto my machine the next time I reinstall Windows.

    Best advertisement for OS X I've seen all day. :P