Code execution in the login screen??
Mahvelous. IIRC, many moons ago MSGINA had a similar issue (too lazy to research tonight.) Lessons never learned?
Paris, too lazy to bother with her MSGINA problem.
Apple on Wednesday patched 18 holes in its Mac OS X operating system, seven that could allow an attacker to remotely take over a machine when a user does nothing more than view a booby-trapped image. The ImageIO Framework, which helps Mac applications read and write popular image formats, was responsible for five of the image …
Funny that software update hasn't offered me the patches yet, despite bugging me continuously to update Safari (which I never use) and reboot the damned machine.
q: WTF should I have to reboot the entire machine just to install a web browser patch?? Is there more to the Safari-MacOS relationship than meets the eye? (like IE vs Windows) or is it just Apple being a bunch of tossers?
"Is there more to the Safari-MacOS relationship than meets the eye? (like IE vs Windows) or is it just Apple being a bunch of tossers?"
Who know's what goes on behind closed doors (and code)... It's probably both... but I'm assuming the reboot is to update Safari for all users on the machine, not just the current user - but I've got nothing to back this up as I know more about Windows than I do about OSX.
I remember always being annoyed when fanboys would laugh at windows users for reboots and dodgy updates, and yet at the same time I'm being forced to reboot for an update to itunes, quicktime and safari... these days I'm more mellow, but it still grates on me... but I guess if it needs to be done, it needs to be done...
Funny how VLC doesn't need to reboot my OSX install though, but then again Apple might use quicktime to load the "preview" icon for avi's etc, so I can see it needing to restart to update that bit of the OS at least.
Wintards - come back when Microsoft stop releasing critical patches *every month* for an OS that they claim is the most secure and advanced on the market. If you think that "patch Tuesday" will cease after the release of Windows 7 then you are living in cloud cuckoo land! See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/05/windows_7_show_stopper_bug/
Anyone who ever claimed that Macs have no vulnerabilities is an idiot speaking utter b@lls, to such a level that he/she probably works as an administrator for government schools. Any computer hooked up to a network has a risk of vulnerabitlites ... yes, kiddies, even Linux and BSD. Now, it's the *rate* and *severity* and *duration* of those vulnerabilities you need to watch out for.