Serious flaw found in Safari
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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Wednesday 14 January 2009 at 02:22:00
Apple and PC users not as safe as they thought
A researcher has uncovered a flaw that could allow hackers to steal
information from those using
Mac OS X
10.5, aka Leopard, or Safari for the PC.
The flaw was found by open source software developer Brian Mastenbrook. It
occurs when the Safari browser interacts with RSS feeds and makes the personal
information of the user vulnerable.
”Safari is vulnerable to an attack that allows a malicious web site to read
files on a user’s hard drive without user intervention,” Mastenbrook wrote on
his
blog.
”This can be used to gain access to sensitive information stored on the
user’s computer, such as emails, passwords or cookies, that could be used to
gain access to the user’s accounts on some web sites.”
While Mastenbrook understandably does not go into detail, he said that people
using OS X 10.5 are vulnerable no matter what browser they are using, and tha RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
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