{"id":69,"date":"2007-11-30T11:14:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T09:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/2007\/11\/30\/more-on-the-quicktime-streaming-flaw\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T11:14:31","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T09:14:31","slug":"more-on-the-quicktime-streaming-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/more-on-the-quicktime-streaming-flaw\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the QuickTime Streaming Flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent article<\/a> we discussed the recently discovered QuickTime streaming flaw that threatens both Macs and Windows computers. Intego’s analysis has shown that this flaw affects both Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger, and Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard. This flaw–and the publicity it has garnered–are going to lead to a number of exploits. Since it is cross platform, Mac users are not safe from the oft-cited smaller footprint of the Mac market share; any exploit that targets a Windows computer will also affect Macs.<\/p>\n

If you want to know exactly how this flaw works (not how to create an exploit, but rather what goes wrong), this extensive article<\/a> goes into the technical details. This is for programmers only, or for those with in-depth knowledge of how computers work, since it discusses such things as “heap randomization” and “memory protection enforcement”, but even of you don’t speak that language, you may get a better idea of this type of flaw, and of how complex computer security can be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a recent article we discussed the recently discovered QuickTime streaming flaw that threatens both Macs and Windows computers. Intego’s analysis has shown that this flaw affects both Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger, and Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard. This flaw–and the publicity it has garnered–are going to lead to a number of exploits. Since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n