Apple’s Mac OS X ImageIO crashes browsers?
A blogger has allegedly found flaw in Apple’s Mac OS X graphics display engine, ImageIO. The said flaw is set to crash the company’s Safari Web browser and other system applications, including the finder. The post by the blogger, only identified as “Drunkenblog”, said that the bug will disable anything using the Mac OS X ImageIO API including Finder, Preview, and applications that are Webkit- and WebCore-based — Apple JavaScript/HTML display engine for Safari and other applications.
The graphics display engine reportedly hangs during an EXIF routine. Also according to the blogger, the images of the specified type are already floating around on the Web. He advises users to “properly sandbox” the rest of the system from anything touching the network to avoid the crashing.
The report also notes that the bug, although it doesn’t affect Camino or Firefox, will crash Tiger. He also confirmed that the matter has already been reported in Apple’s system; however, as with most security issues, Apple has not publicly responded.
A blogger has allegedly found flaw in Apple’s Mac OS X graphics display engine, ImageIO. The said flaw is set to crash the company’s Safari Web browser and other system applications, including the finder. The post by the blogger, only identified as “Drunkenblog”, said that the bug will disable anything using the Mac OS X ImageIO API including Finder, Preview, and applications that are Webkit- and WebCore-based — Apple JavaScript/HTML display engine for Safari and other applications.
The graphics display engine reportedly hangs during an EXIF routine. Also according to the blogger, the images of the specified type are already floating around on the Web. He advises users to “properly sandbox” the rest of the system from anything touching the network to avoid the crashing.
The report also notes that the bug, although it doesn’t affect Camino or Firefox, will crash Tiger. He also confirmed that the matter has already been reported in Apple’s system; however, as with most security issues, Apple has not publicly responded.
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