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Zero Day Initiative Advisory 11-303

Zero Day Initiative Advisory 11-303 - This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple Quicktime. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the way Quicktime handles H.264 streams.
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Packet Storm Mac OS X Widget

Packet Storm Widget is a Mac OS X widget that allows users to see all latest news from packetstormsecurity.org. A user can choose between different kind of news to see: All of the Latest Content, Latest News, Latest Files, Latest 0 Days, Latest Vulnerabilities and Latest Exploits. This allows a user to always keep up to date on their favorite security topics
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Apple Safari file:// Arbitrary Code Execution

This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability found in Apple Safari on OSX platform. A policy issue in the handling of file:// URLs may allow arbitrary remote code execution under the context of the user. In order to trigger arbitrary remote code execution, the best way seems to be opening a share on the victim machine first (this can be SMB/WebDav/FTP, or a fileformat that OSX might automount), and then execute it in /Volumes/[share]
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Apple Safari Directory Traversal

Apple Safari versions 5.0 and later on Mac OS and Windows are vulnerable to a directory traversal issue with the handling of "safari-extension://" URLs. Attackers can create malicious websites that trigger Safari to send files from the victim's system to the attacker. Arbitrary Javascript can be executed in the web context of the Safari extension.