New Remotely Exploitable Vulnerability Found in 64-bit Win7

[madsweeney]

Apple software always causes my Windows 7 machines to have issues. This is just another example of their poor programming for Windows platform

 

[jryan388]

I use it for developing sometimes...

 

[datawrecker]

This is a security flaw similar to what Charlie Miller has been taking advantage of at the PWN2OWN contests for the past couple of years. Basically, Safari can run any application or code unchecked on any device it has been installed on.

Old news is no news. Then again this news has nothing to do with a flaw in Windows. It's a flaw with Safari.

 

[datawrecker]

[citation][nom]amk-aka-Phantom[/nom]Who the hell uses Safari on Windows? Dismissed![/citation]
I use to use Safari on Windows. Till i took a sword to the chest.

 

[wydileie]

[citation][nom]sissysue[/nom]Windows is a Swiss OS, always has been. If not no third party program could get kernel privileges. I'll stick with Linux or OS X for my real computing and leave Windose for games.[/citation]

In hacking competitions, OS X is ALWAYS the first to go down. Why? Because of Safari. None of the big boys (Linux, Windows, OS X) are breakable in a stripped down system with nothing but essential software. OS X goes down in the Tier 2 test where all standard installed software for the given OS is included while Windows and Linux remain unbroken.

 

[isamuelson]

Another reason to stay away from Safari. I use Chrome myself.

 

[silverblue]

It just works... doesn't it?

 

[nebun]

here is the flaw " Apple Safari browser"....when is apple going to admit that their OS is shit?

 

[jwcalla]

[citation][nom]datawrecker[/nom]Then again this news has nothing to do with a flaw in Windows. It's a flaw with Safari.[/citation]

Cripes... did you read the article? The OS is not supposed to allow an application -- even a turd application like Safari -- to gain privileged mode.

 

[richboyliang]

Windows and Safari don't belong in the same sentence

 

[nicodemus_mm]

Easy fix for MS... they should do what Apple did to Adobe Flash and prevent Safari (or any other Apple trash) from running on Windows.

 

[waethorn]

Here's the thing about this: WinRT in Windows 8 will make this, and many other exploits impossible. Apple will have to start over with iTunes to really make it shine on Windows for Metro UI - and they have to, because Windows users are their biggest customer base.

 

[Guest]

sitting here, reading this, in safari, on windows 7 home premium 64 bit...

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

I use to use Safari on Windows. Till i took a sword to the chest.

You mean, an arrow to the knee :lol:

 

[eddieroolz]

So basically, this exploit affects the 10 people that have Safari for Windows installed?

 

[soundping]

Apple Safari browser in Windows.. YUCK

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

Apple Safari browser [strike]in Windows[/strike].. YUCK

Fixed!

Wait...

Apple [strike]Safari browser in Windows[/strike].. YUCK

NOW fixed for real.

 

[3ogdy]

damn....who the hell uses Apple's bullshit on Windows...to hell with Apple and their software.It's Windows territory...there's Chrome,Firefox,Opera and many other browsers available...to hell with ...err...what was that called....right..Safari...