Apple Fixes Bugs in Quicktime & VLC
January 2007
Month of Apple Bugs, meet Month of Patches.
It's officially a cat_and_mouse race to exploit __ and fix __ security vulnerabilities affecting Apple Computer's Mac operating system. Less than 24 hours after the release of working exploits for two critical media player flaws __ QuickTime and VLC __ a former engineer in Apple's BSD Technology Group has launched an effort to provide run_time fixes for each flaw released during the Month of Apple Bugs (MoAB) project. Landon Fuller, one of the primary architects of the Darwin ports system, has announced plans to react to each MoAB bug with a daily, unofficial patch.
Source: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2078433,00.asp
Month of Apple Bugs, meet Month of Patches.
It's officially a cat_and_mouse race to exploit __ and fix __ security vulnerabilities affecting Apple Computer's Mac operating system. Less than 24 hours after the release of working exploits for two critical media player flaws __ QuickTime and VLC __ a former engineer in Apple's BSD Technology Group has launched an effort to provide run_time fixes for each flaw released during the Month of Apple Bugs (MoAB) project. Landon Fuller, one of the primary architects of the Darwin ports system, has announced plans to react to each MoAB bug with a daily, unofficial patch.
Source: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2078433,00.asp
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