AT&T Tech Support 360
June 14, 2007 3:07 PM PDT
Another flaw within Safari 3.0 for Windows beta
Security researcher Robert Swiecki disclosed yesterday another vulnerability within the new Safari 3.0 for Windows beta, bringing the total of public vulnerabilities to nine. The latest flaw allows an attacker to steal a cookie. The flaw exists in the Javascript's window.setTimeout()implementation where the content timer-triggered function is processed after window.location property is changed.
In response to other Safari 3.0 vulnerabilities, Apple today released an updated version that addresses three of the nine public vulnerabilities.
Safari 3 beta is NOT ready for prime time. As well as the security issues it crashes when trying to authenticate to a proxy server and, in my case, fails to load pages on our protected intranet.
I look forward to Apple getting Safari right as it has some really nice features but in the mean time it will NOT be anything but a test piece of software for me.
Finally, IMHO, this is turning out to be somewhat of a PR disaster for Apple...
(now) nine vulnerabilities, not three as the article incorrectly
states:
http://www.rec-sec.co.il/2007/06/12/apple-safari-for-
windows-vulnerabilities/
Look at the end of the page for the five fixed and three of the
(yet) un-fixed vulnerabilities.