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Safari Flaw Worse Than First Thought, Microsoft Warns - Yahoo! News

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Jun 1, 2008 3:36 PM EDT
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Microsoft is warning that a previously disclosed flaw in Apple's Safari browser could have dire consequences for Windows users... It turns out that this flaw can be exploited in combination with a second unpatched bug in Internet Explorer.

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Melissa Corley

It's interesting that Apple isn't rushing to fix the Safari issue. I'm just glad I don't use it.

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    Reply#1 - Sun Jun 1, 2008 3:40 PM EDT
    {"commentId":1873828,"authorDomain":"adamkemp"}
    Adam Kemp

    Umm...sounds like the real security problem is in IE, and has been for over a year. I wouldn't be too glad you're not using Safari. If you're using IE then you have much bigger problems.

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      Reply#2 - Mon Jun 2, 2008 2:17 AM EDT
      {"commentId":1873876,"authorDomain":"mikesifeldeen"}
      Mike Sifeldeen

      /has Mac

      /doesn't worry about security issues

      /happy

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      Reply#3 - Mon Jun 2, 2008 2:36 AM EDT
      {"commentId":1873987,"authorDomain":"ryanbooker"}
      Ryan Booker

      Talk about PR spin. The dangerous bug is in IE and has been for a year. Why am I not surprised.

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        Reply#4 - Mon Jun 2, 2008 3:48 AM EDT
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        Melissa Corley

        I'm on a Mac at home and use Firefox there, so I'm oblivious, I guess. I have IE at work, but it sounds like I would need Safari on my work computer too for this particular bug to take hold? I know there are other ones out there though.

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          Reply#5 - Mon Jun 2, 2008 10:15 AM EDT
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          Adam Kemp

          For this to really be an issue then you would need to run Safari on a Windows computer with an unpatched IE (which is all IE versions, since there is no patch yet). It does sound to me like there is a problem with Safari, but it's not as severe as they're making it sound, which is why Apple isn't fixing it until 3.2.

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