Quick Time 7.6 Fixes Several Vulnerabilities
Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 07:15AM
drStrangeP0rk in Apple Vulnerabilities > QuickTime, Apple Vulnerability, Mac Exploit

Similar to other user click and view attacks, the user is the gateway to the attack. The attacker entices a user to click on a link to view a movie file that has the malicious code in it. In the most of extreme cases the attacker can gain control of your computer and execute code on it. 

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