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Microsoft investigating possible vulnerability in Safari on Windows

Date: 02 June 2008

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For all those users that run Safari on Windows:

Microsoft has received a report on a vulnerability in the Windows version of Safari that can result in unauthorised code execution. There is not a lot of detail available at this stage, but apparently the vulnerability lies within the default save location of downloads within Safari and the way Windows desktop handles executables.

Users who have changed the default download location are reported to be unaffected by this issue.

The original advisory is available here.

-- Paul