Safari not so good-y.
A number of security researchers say they found bugs in
Apple
‘s brand new web browser
Safari for Windows
just hours after its public beta release on 11 June.
The only bug to have been independently verified so far was discovered by researcher Thor Larholm and concerns
Safari
‘s failure to validate user-supplied strings before passing them as parameters to external URL protocol handlers. The vulnerability could be exploited to execute code on a victim’s computer by viewing a malicious web page in the browser.
A more detailed description can be found on Thor Larholm’s blog
here
.
Other bugs reported include a memory corruption error discovered by researcher Aviv Raff, and a total of six bugs claimed to have been found in the space of one afternoon by David Maynor and colleagues at
Errata Security
. The details can be found on Aviv Raff’s blog
here
and on David Maynor’s blog
here
.
Posted on 13 June 2007 by
Virus Bulletin
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