more on Month of Apple Bugs

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From: Dan Shoop <[email protected]>
Date: January 7, 2007 2:13:35 PM EST
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IP] Month of Apple Bugs

At 8:13 PM -0500 1/6/07, David Farber wrote:
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> From: Carl Malamud <[email protected]>
> Date: January 6, 2007 8:03:26 PM EST
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Month of Apple Bugs
>
> Hi Dave -
>
> Mac users might want to tune into the ongoing daily saga of the Month
> of Apple Bugs:
>
> http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/
>
> It's day 6 and Quicktime is definitely taking a pounding.  VLC took a
> hit, but of course the VLC team instantly released version 0.8.6a as a
> fix.

Vulnerabilities are not exploitabilities. This puts it into the "so  
what" category.

Not only that but these are user mode applications so that shrinks  
these "issues" further.
-- 

-dhan

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