APPLE-SA-2010-11-18-1 Safari 5.0.3 and Safari 4.1.3
Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 12:34PM
drStrangeP0rk in Apple, Client, Mac OSX 10.5, Mac OSX 10.6, Safari, Server
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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