This post was published 12 years 10 months 25 days ago. A number of changes have been made to the site since then, so please contact me if anything is broken or seems wrong.A Mail bug patched in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) has been rediscovered in Leopard’s Mail program. The bug allows malicious code to be executed when opening certain types of email attachments, and was thought to be fixed until now.
The problem arises from improper handling of additional file-handling instructions included with file types such as JPEG. Malicious code can be inserted into the information slot, and will be executed when the file is opened. Fortunately, not all file types are affected, and the researchers at Heise Security had difficulties consistently reproducing the problem.
Does this mean the end of Macs-are-better-because-they-can’t-be-attacked fights?
why of course this is the end of the Macs are better because they are secure argument.
One minor hole in the built in mail program wich will be fixed very soon in an system update vrs hundreds of thousands of viruses and exploits on windows.
Guess you showed them.