QuickTime needs more patches

Posted by Vic Laurie
June 13, 2008

Speaking of media players, the never-ending parade of patches for QuickTime goes on. Apple has issued another update. Ryan Naraine writes:

Apple has shipped a highly critical QuickTime software update with patches for at least five code execution vulnerabilities haunting Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X users.

With QuickTime 7.5, Apple corrects multiple buffer overflows, memory corruption issues and URI handling flaws that could allow malicious hackers to launch exploits with QuickTime movie or image files.

The Apple download link is here.

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