Apple slams shut TEN code execution holes in QuickTime on Windows

Apple has patched security vulnerabilities in the Windows version of its QuickTime media player that allowed malicious video files to execute arbitrary code. The entertainment goliath said version 7.7.5 of QuickTime will fix 10 serious bugs that can be exploited to crash the software or pull off remote-code execution on …

[Anonymous Coward]

Your dastardly tricks won't work on me Cupertino

I refuse to let Quicktime or iTunes or Safari or "Bonjour" on any Win systems I administer.

[cyke1]

"Apple slams shut"

I think proper headline is "Apple finally gets off their ass and fix'es ...."

[Lee D]

Re: "Apple slams shut"

Without the apostrophe.

[Anonymous Coward]

Quicktime

Thought that went the same way as RealPlayer.

[Sooty]

Re: Quicktime

I can't imagine anyone intentionally using it on windows, other than via iTunes. It doesn't look or act like windows software and is incredibly unresponsive, probably due to not using standard windows stuff.

[Tree]

Re: Quicktime

Real Player? What bloatware! That was the model for a simple program that worked well whose authors thought it could replace all the other programs on your PC. Adobe acrobat reader followed that business model. The worse thing is that Real Player spread obnoxious adware to your computer. while trying to track your every move. Gurgle and Facebutt follow that model today (except the adware, bloat, and tracking are in the stinking cloud).

The cloud stinks.

Quicktime tries to track you also. If it was just a media player, as it was at one time, most of the security issurs would go away. What a bag of hurt!

[Crisp]

Quick...time?

Ah the 1990's! Such a glorious decade!

[Sheep!]

Who the hell still uses QP? I though that died out years ago?

[southpacificpom]

Ten Fixes

Are they trying to steal Oracles Java "fixes" record?