VideoLAN has released an updated version (0.8.6a) of its popular video player. There are two lines of fixes. One fix is made for Mac and Windows over a format string security vulnerability as has been pointed out by MOAB. Another fix, according to VideoLAN, is improvement over ‘the “Fullscreen Controller on Mac OS X.”
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Websense Security Labs has issued a security alert report as of January 4, which states that Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 7 or lower) has a security hole. Websense Security Labs says that an attacker can embed a malicious JavaScript in PDF files and execute actions such as inserting forwarding addresses for phishing. Thus, if a PDF file is hosted at a remote server, site visitors can fall a victim, depending on the versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader and the Internet browsers that they use in reading it. And, according to Websense Security Labs, Adobe fixed this vulnerability as Adobe Reader 8 was released.
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A few weeks earlier, VideoLAN released its latest media player version. According to ‘Month of the Apple Bugs (MOAB),’ there exists “a format string vulnerability exists in the handling of the of the udp:// URL handler.” This vulnerability affects the latest Mac version of VLC Media Player.
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Smith Micro Software, a division of Allume Systems, has updated their Mac compression/decompression products. StuffIt Standard, StuffIt Expander and StuffIt Deluxe are all updated to 11.0.2.
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Many Mac freeware and shareware titles have already been in Universal Binary. Some people think that major software companies are the quickest in releasing the Universal version. But that’s not actually true. Continue reading