QuickTime Vulnerability Hits Mac and Windows
Apple has relased an advisory and corresponding patch for several vulnerabilities in QuickTime (About the security content of QuickTime 7.1.5). Using Maliciously-crafted 3GP, MIDI, Quicktime, PICT, QTIFfiles can result in crashing or arbitrary code execution
The vulnerabilities are in both Mac OS X and Windows versions of Quicktime.
Vista's been getting a lot of bad press lately about problems with anti-virus, firewall, encrypting file system and Patch Guard. Those problems are real but we can't forget they are not the full extent of the security problems we face. Third-party apps, especially those that require elevate privileges to run, are also problems.
McAfee, sponsor of this site, was also noted as failing a high profile anti-virus test but it turns out the testers were not using the latest updates. ComputerWorld is reporting:
According to McAfee, Virus Bulletin has accepted that it was not using the latest antivirus updates available at the time of test, which caused McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5 to fail when detecting the test viruses. McAfee is currently working with Virus Bulletin on this discrepancy and to make the updated test results available.
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