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Apple Fixes WebKit Vulnerabilities With Release of Safari 8.0.4

  • March 18, 2015
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By Eduard Kovacs on March 18, 2015 Apple announced on Tuesday that is has addressed multiple security holes with the release of Safari 8.0.4, Safari 7.1.4, and Safari 6.2.4.

According to a security advisory published by the company, a total of 16 memory corruption issues have been identified in WebKit, the layout engine software component used by the browser for rendering web pages.Safari vulnerabilities fixed
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As usual, Apple has not disclosed the details of the vulnerabilities, but the company has noted that visiting a malicious website set up to exploit these flaws can lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. The issues have been fixed through improved memory handling, Apple said.    Full Article