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Wednesday, February 06, 2008, 04:00 pm
Apple releases QuickTime 7.4.1 for Leopard, Tiger and Panther
Apple on Wednesday released QuickTime 7.4.1, a recommended security update for all users of QuickTime 7.0 running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.4.9 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Vista.The software update patches a vulnerability where visiting a malicious website could lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.
"A heap buffer overflow exists in QuickTime's handling of HTTP responses when RTSP tunneling is enabled," Apple said. "By enticing a user to visit a maliciously crafted webpage, an attacker may cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution."
QuickTime 7.4.1 addresses the issue through improved bounds checking.
The update is available as 55.5MB download for Leopard, a 51.7MB download for Tiger, a 50.4MB download for Panther, and a 22.3MB download for Windows Vista or XP SP2.
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It's likely they're changing one or maybe two lines of code, so these huge patches are certainly overkill... They could patch it in like 5kb...
I find it odd that the Mac updates are more than twice the size of the Windows one. I know we have two processor architectures to support, but that doesn't explain the extra size. Plus Windows QT implements non-native UI so it should be bigger than the Mac version.
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Originally Posted by Bregalad 
I find it odd that the Mac updates are more than twice the size of the Windows one. I know we have two processor architectures to support, but that doesn't explain the extra size. Plus Windows QT implements non-native UI so it should be bigger than the Mac version.
I find it odd that the Mac updates are more than twice the size of the Windows one. I know we have two processor architectures to support, but that doesn't explain the extra size. Plus Windows QT implements non-native UI so it should be bigger than the Mac version.
There are four: 32-bit PPC, 64-bit PPC, 32-bit-Intel and 64-bit Intel. But that still doesn't account for the size.
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Originally Posted by solipsism
But that still doesn't account for the size.
But that still doesn't account for the size.
The Mac OS is just more endowed.
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Originally Posted by OriginalMacRat
The Mac OS is just more endowed.
The Mac OS is just more endowed.
I just (1.5 hours ago) installed this update on my PB G4 12 and Intel Mini, both on Leopard. No probs with the PB but the Mini just hung after I clicked restart. For over an hour I just had my desktop, no menu bar or icons, and an arrow mouse cursor. I finally figured I'd restart as something was amiss (the PB G4 took <5 mins for the whole process). Now I just get a dos-like screen saying "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key." On inserting a boot disk and pressing any key I get bupkis, nada, nothing. Just that damn sentence staring back at me.
Hopefully my experience is isolated.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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Originally Posted by dopplerd
I just (1.5 hours ago) installed this update on my PB G4 12 and Intel Mini, both on Leopard. No probs with the PB but the Mini just hung after I clicked restart. For over an hour I just had my desktop, no menu bar or icons, and an arrow mouse cursor. I finally figured I'd restart as something was amiss (the PB G4 took <5 mins for the whole process). Now I just get a dos-like screen saying "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key." On inserting a boot disk and pressing any key I get bupkis, nada, nothing. Just that damn sentence staring back at me.
Hopefully my experience is isolated.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
I just (1.5 hours ago) installed this update on my PB G4 12 and Intel Mini, both on Leopard. No probs with the PB but the Mini just hung after I clicked restart. For over an hour I just had my desktop, no menu bar or icons, and an arrow mouse cursor. I finally figured I'd restart as something was amiss (the PB G4 took <5 mins for the whole process). Now I just get a dos-like screen saying "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key." On inserting a boot disk and pressing any key I get bupkis, nada, nothing. Just that damn sentence staring back at me.
Hopefully my experience is isolated.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Have you tried inserting the restore disc and holding down the 'C' key while restarting. If you can, enter Disk Utility from the Tools and verify the disk.
If not, I hope you are using Time Machine or some backup system.
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Originally Posted by dopplerd
I just (1.5 hours ago) installed this update on my PB G4 12 and Intel Mini, both on Leopard. No probs with the PB but the Mini just hung after I clicked restart. For over an hour I just had my desktop, no menu bar or icons, and an arrow mouse cursor. I finally figured I'd restart as something was amiss (the PB G4 took <5 mins for the whole process). Now I just get a dos-like screen saying "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key." On inserting a boot disk and pressing any key I get bupkis, nada, nothing. Just that damn sentence staring back at me.
Hopefully my experience is isolated.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
I just (1.5 hours ago) installed this update on my PB G4 12 and Intel Mini, both on Leopard. No probs with the PB but the Mini just hung after I clicked restart. For over an hour I just had my desktop, no menu bar or icons, and an arrow mouse cursor. I finally figured I'd restart as something was amiss (the PB G4 took <5 mins for the whole process). Now I just get a dos-like screen saying "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key." On inserting a boot disk and pressing any key I get bupkis, nada, nothing. Just that damn sentence staring back at me.
Hopefully my experience is isolated.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Had it happen on another update on my iBook G4, had to reload...
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Originally Posted by solipsism
Have you tried inserting the restore disc and holding down the 'C' key while restarting. If you can, enter Disk Utility from the Tools and verify the disk.
If not, I hope you are using Time Machine or some backup system.
Have you tried inserting the restore disc and holding down the 'C' key while restarting. If you can, enter Disk Utility from the Tools and verify the disk.
If not, I hope you are using Time Machine or some backup system.
I did finally get to boot to cd holding down "c" on startup. I did not want to reinstall so I restarted with the 10.5.1 HD selected as startup. This time it did boot to the log in screen. I enter my password and get the setup utility (that thing that runs the first time you boot after install the first time), really odd! I quit the setup and it kicks me back to the login. So I enter all the stuff in set up thinking if I jump through its hoops I'll be OK. WRONG. After I go through all the setup assistant BS I get kicked back to the login screen again. Any thoughts?
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Is Apple getting sloppy with it's update sizes? Before the update my QT was 26MB, after it is 29MB. Are they really changing that much in associated frameworks?