QuickTime 7.3.1 Update Released
QuickTime update 7.3.1 was released today, you can get this update by running your Software Update utility on your Mac or PC. The update seems to address 3 vulnerabilities in the player that could lead to a malicious attack. Apple release this update right after news where spread around the web about the attack and people complained about being hit by this bug.
The vulnerabilities seem to be triggered by buffer overflow errors when watching videos intentionally crafted with this purpose. The Real Time Streaming Protocols (RTSP) and QuickTime files (QTL) are the one affected by these vulnerabilities. At the same time QuickTime Flash media handler was the most serious of them with the possibility of leading to arbitrary code execution.
Apple credit Adobe and McAfee for the patch that takes care of the flash vulnerability, while all other code was handled from inside Apple. And gave special thanks to the people at Syseclabs for reporting the issue. Wait no more head to Apple.com and get you updates to keep you Mac protected from malicious attacks.
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