Apple Safari Multiple Vulnerabilities


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Apple Safari Multiple Vulnerabilities

Highly critical .........

Exposure of sensitive information

"Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple Safari, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information or compromise a user's system.

1) An error in the handling of TrueType fonts can be exploited to corrupt memory when a user visits a web site embedding a specially crafted font.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

2) Some vulnerabilities in FreeType can potentially be exploited to compromise a user's system.

For more information:

SA34723

3) Some vulnerabilities in libpng can potentially be exploited to compromise a user's system.

For more information:

SA33970

4) An error in the processing of external entities in XML files can be exploited to read files from the user's system when a users visits a specially crafted web page.

Other vulnerabilities have also been reported of which some may also affect Safari version 3.x."

read - http://secunia.com/advisories/35379/

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