Year-old QuickTime flaw fixed
Although QuickTime had been updated and patched a few months ago, creators had to release one more patch. QuickTime for Windows XP and Vista had one more bug which had been simply overlooked.
Apple (company which created QuickTime) was informed of this certain vulnerability by a researcher. According to computerworld.com several samples posted by the researcher to the web took advantage of both the QuickTime bug and one in the open-source Firefox browser to create a drive-by attack capable of invisibly hijacking a PC. However, Apple did not fix these problems together with others a few months ago.
Firefox problem was fixed recently. While talking about the issue Mozilla’s chief of security replied that Apple does not seem to take any action concerning the bug in QuickTime, although it’s been more than a year the problem is known.
Apple argued that it’s a different bug, but agreed that the exploitation of it may lead to arbitrary code execution. A few days ago QuickTime had been updated and is now available on Apple’s home page.
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