On Wednesday, Apple released version 7.0.6 of its Safari web browser for OS X Mavericks and version 6.1.6 for its OS X Lion and Mountain Lion operating systems. The new version, features fixes for several WebKit-related security and memory corruption issues that could let attackers run arbitrary code on victim’s computers. The security issue could […]
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It was updated again. And that’s not a bad thing. On Wednesday, Google released version 27.0.1453.110 of its Chrome web browser. The update, a 50.4 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Medium CVE-2013-2855: Memory corruption in dev tools API. – High CVE-2013-2856: Use-after-free in input handling. – High CVE-2013-2857: Use-after-free in image […]
It’s the bug fixes that make a difference. Late Tuesday, Google released a beta of version 23.0.1271.64 of its Chrome web browser. The update, a 56.5 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Medium CVE-2012-5127: Integer overflow leading to out-of-bounds read in WebP handling. Credit to Phil Turnbull. – High CVE-2012-5116: Use-after-free in […]
Well, this is awkward. A little over a week after releasing an update to its Office 2011 for Mac, Microsoft has stopped pushing out auto-updates for Service Pack 2 over a flaw that corrupts identity databases in the company’s Outlook mail client. The announcement was made on Friday through the company’s Office blog, and notifies […]
Google Chrome, Google’s new web browser, just reached version 5.0.375.99 for the Mac. The new version, an 25.4 megabyte download, offers the following the following changes: – Low OOB read with WebGL. Credit to Sergey Glazunov; Google Chrome Security Team (SkyLined). – Medium Isolate sandboxed iframes more strongly. Credit to sirdarckcat of Google Security Team. […]