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Safari for Windows Updated to 3.0.1

Thursday June 14, 2007 8:22 am PDT by Arnold Kim
After security concerns about Apple's new Safari Beta for Windows arose earlier this week, Apple has issued an update to Safari for Windows.

According to Macworld, the update addresses a number of security issues:

The security improvements in Safari Beta 3.0.1 include correction for a "command injection vulnerability," corrected with additional processing and validation of URLs that could otherwise lead to an unexpected termination of the browser; an out-of-bounds memory read issue; and a race condition that can allow cross-site scripting using a JavaScript exploit


The new version is available through Apple's software update or downloaded from Apple's site. The Macintosh version of Safari 3 is not vulnerable to these issues.
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Eidorian
61 months ago
Time to run Software Update.

Looks like Apple is on the ball when it comes to closing security holes.
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66217
61 months ago

The Macintosh version of Safari 3 is not vulnerable to these issues.

:)

Good that they fix it this quickly. Speaks good of Apple.
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mmccaskill
61 months ago
Not only are they very quick with fixing the security holes, but they fix them before they officially release it, unlike M$.
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studiomusic
61 months ago
So, did they send out a buggy beta while they had the fixes in the wings just to show the PC world that they can get a fix out within a few days?
If they did do that, was it worth the bad press for the bugs?
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lazyrighteye
61 months ago
Releasing an update 3 DAYS after the beta went public...

That is seriously the funniest thing I've heard today.
Granted, it is early... but still. 3 days.

Then you toss in "the Macintosh version of Safari 3 is not vulnerable to these issues" and it gets even funnier.
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spaz8
61 months ago
So I uninstalled the OSX version for nothin :( When i saw the secuirty issues, i didnt wanna be doing my online banking with the beta.
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Much Ado
61 months ago

Releasing an update 3 DAYS after the beta went public...


:confused:

Release a beta. Reports come back of some issues. Fixed within 3 days.

I'm happy with that.
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epochblue
61 months ago
Good to know they're on the ball about this one. Perhaps that'll quell some of the nay-sayers....sadly, I doubt it, though.

So, did they send out a buggy beta while they had the fixes in the wings just to show the PC world that they can get a fix out within a few days?
If they did do that, was it worth the bad press for the bugs?


What? Why would anyone do that? This is beta software...it's going to have bugs...the fact that they're getting such bad press for their BETA software is beyond me.
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Sky Blue
61 months ago
Still crashes when you do anything in XP.
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Rocketman
61 months ago
Some of the user feedback that is more relevant to end users has to do with "features" offered by Firefox and Opera. Perhaps Apple could implement some of the features in Safari under an "alternate interface" similar to what "Sprint" did with word processing in the late 80's. That word processor had "interfaces" for Wordstar, Word Perfect, Word, and about a dozen others, while the underlyinjg program was a kernal. It allowed users of "any" word processor to use it with no learning curve, and some users used it to convert files from one format to another.

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