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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 30 January 2007 | |
  
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The second is that a maliciously crafted record can be used to crash the iChat Agent. The problem recurs if iChat's Bonjour capability is restarted, as the record is cached by mDNSresponder (Bonjour's service discovery daemon). According to LMH, "These particular issues can't be abused for arbitrary code execution" but they "can be abused remotely affecting numerous users given that they can be reached via service advertisements." The suggested workaround is to avoid using iChat with Bonjour (you probably don't, unless you use iChat within your organisation) or to disable mDNSresponder (not a great option if you use other applications or services that rely on Bonjour). In related news, the MoAB Fixes group has released its latest Application Enhancer module, including patches for the Software Update (January 24), Installer (January 26) and Flip4Mac (January 27) bugs. Telestream is reportedly working on an official fix for the Flip4Mac bug and will incorporate it in the next release.{moscomment} |
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