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February 21, 2006

Severe Hole Found in Apple Safari

Filed under: TMUP-Blog — Steven Goetz @ 11:35 am

“As the German IT portal heise online conveys, a new security hole in the Safari webbrowser for Apple’s Mac OS X has been discovered. This security hole is rather severe, as it invokes the execution of shell scripts under certain circumstances.”

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Like usual, be careful what you click on!

Contributing Editor: Steven Goetz
UPDATE!It appears this problem is worse then it was once thought, Mail.app also has this hole.
The free e-mail client Thunderbird does not fall for this trick because it does not analyze AppleDouble. A protective measure is to move the Terminal application from /Applications/Utilities into a different folder. But the best idea is not to open any files if you don’t know where they came from.
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