Safari for Windows already hacked
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jun 12, 2007 at 3:00pm
Within hours of Apple’s public release of the beta for Safari 3.0 for Windows, three security researchers independently found holes within the new browser, reports CNET.
Researcher Aviv Raff found a vulnerability, a memory corruption error that could allow an attacker to insert malicious code on a Windows machine. Security researcher David Maynor generated six bugs—four producing a denial of service (crash), and two capable of executing remote code. Veteran security researcher Thor Larholm found a “0day” vulnerability in Safari.
All of the vulnerabilities were found on Windows machines; none of the researchers could say whether these flaws also existed on the Mac OS, notes CNET.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
