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Nov182010

APPLE-SA-2010-11-18-1 Safari 5.0.3 and Safari 4.1.3

DateThursday, November 18, 2010 at 12:34PM

Apple has released a security update for Safari to address serious vulnerabilities in WebKit. This update addresses 28 vulnerabilities mainly related to the handling of HTML, in consistent handling of strings, memory corruption and a use after free error. 

The update does requrer a restart, below is a simplified list from Apple. 

  • More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field
  • More accurate results in Top Sites
  • Fixes an issue that could cause content delivered with the Flash 10.1 plug-in to overlap webpage content
  • More reliable pop-up blocking
  • Improved stability when typing into search and text input fields onwww.netflix.com and www.facebook.com
  • Improved stability when using JavaScript-intensive extensions
  • Improved stability when using VoiceOver with Safari
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