Originally Posted By: Hal Itosis
Originally Posted By: artie505
One thing on which I've never been clear... Are all the security holes on which these exploits are based present in non-current versions of OS X/Safari/QuickTime/etc, or do they exploit newly introduced holes?

Pretty much mostly the former.

That's interesting, because:
  1. I've always assumed that these exploits are discovered by people scrutinizing new incarnations of OS X and apps, and
  2. It suggests that at least some of the exploits address security holes that have been around (perhaps waaay) longer than I'd thought.


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