| Apple updates QuickTime security; Samba still vulnerable |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 30 May 2007 | |
  
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In related news, Symantec has alerted users of Mac OS X to a flaw in the version of Samba - used for sharing Mac OS X files with Windows computers - shipped by Apple. "The DeepSight Threat Analyst Team successfully exploited the heap corruption vulnerability on a fully patched Mac OS X 10.4.9 system running the default Samba 3.0.10 application," the company has told customers. Since Apple has not updated Samba for two years, Symantec recommends users download and install Samba 3.0.25 (or later) from www.samba.org, or at least disable Windows Sharing until Apple does issue an update. Mac binaries are not available from the site, so it appears necessary to build the binary from the source files, a task many users would find daunting.{moscomment} |
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