Apple released five security fixes covering vulnerabilities for its QuickTime application today, all of which repair errors that could allow remote hackers to launch an attack on affected computers. The patches, which are addressed in Apple's updated in QuickTime 7.5, affect the previous version 7.4.5, which was released in April. Four of the five repairs affect numerous versions of Mac OS X and Windows, while one patch affects only Windows Vista and XP SP2. Two of the updates fix heap buffer overflow errors resulting from QuickTime's mishandling of the PICT image file. Both vulnerabilities could be exploited if a user was enticed to open a maliciously-crafted PICT image, which would allow an attacker to take complete control of the user's computer or shut it down entirely.
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Nothing too out of the ordinary as updates go.
Nothing too out of the ordinary as updates go.
And a restart was needed why again? What level of the OS is quicktime messing with that it really shouldn't?
OS X, XP, or especially Vista, there is nothing Quicktime should be doing that would require a restart.
1) They are sticking their code in the OS where it doesn't belong.
2) They are lazy programmers and instead of stopping any services or instances or restarting the 'startup' quicktime applet/icon, they are forcing users to restart their whole freaking computer?
You can literally install IIS and the UNIX subsystem on Windows XP or Vista without a restart, do you understand why this makes me a bit jumpy? (And this isn't even mentioning you can hotswap video, RAM, and CPUs on Vista if the hardware supports it as well without a hiccup or restart...
Holy cow Apple, stop the crap software, especially when it is running on other platforms.
Now they need to fix the Apple Safari Carpet Bombing Flaw which affects both Windows and MacOSuckx.
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