Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Apple Patches QuickTime Player Vulnerabilities

Apple has released a new version of their QuickTime media player. New version fixes 16 vulnerabilities that all make it possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary code in target system. To exploit the vulnerabilities attacker can lure user to open specially crafted file.

Vulnerabilities affect QuickTime versions prior 7.6.6. Users of vulnerable version should update to the latest one available.

More information about the security content of QuickTime 7.6.6 can be read here.

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