Apple finally patches 13 month old bug in QuickTime
October 6th, 2007 Leave a comment Visited 34 times, 1 so far today
Apple finally patches 13 month old bug in QuickTime
Microsoft is often blamed for delaying the patches for their software applications. However, this time Apple is being criticized for fixing a bug in their QuickTime application after massive delays.
The iPod maker has finally rolled out an updated edition of QuickTime which fixes a 13 month old bug.
Security experts say that Apple overlooked this bug in the previously updated version that was released earlier this year.
This flaw affected the application on Windows XP and Windows Vista platforms. It was first reported by U.K. researcher Petko Petkov.
Apple’s advisory said on this updated release: “A command injection issue exists in QuickTime’s handling of URLs in the ‘qtnext’ field in QTL files. By enticing a user to open a specially crafted QTL file, an attacker may cause an application to be launched with controlled command line arguments, which may lead to arbitrary code execution.”
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