On Aug 31, 2004, at 8:48 AM, Philip Stortz wrote:
Ok those of you who for whatever reason think you are completely secure using os x....
Here's a very real cross platform vulnerability, reported at CERT (the government agency)
that applies to os x and other operating systems and browsers.
<http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/CRDY-636R79> note, "no statement from vendor", the usual
response to serious security problems.
No comment on CERT's web site does NOT mean no action is being taken.
Also see:
MandrakeSoft: <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/CRDY-636R8K> HP: <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/CRDY-636R7Z> Red Hat Linux: <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/CRDY-636R96> SUSE Linux: <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/CRDY-636R9J> NET BSD:<http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/CRDY-636R8T>
Before one cries 'Wolf' you may want to see just how many canids are really around....
< http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/388984> showing the truly huge number of systems
affected, on many different processors, this is what happens in the real world because
code is ported from one os/machine type to another, not rewritten so the same bugs tend to
be in many different systems.
10.3.5 included the fixed libpng? <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25791>.
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