Security Concerns Rise As Apple Cuts QuickTime Support

[Julio Urquidi]

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Trend Micro’s Simply Security blog warned QuickTime for Windows users not to throw caution to the wind and prompting readers to uninstall Apple’s now unsupported video player. Over the weekend, the blog noted two recently announced critical advisories, posted on Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative website (ZDI-16-241 and ZDI-16-242). The blog emphasizes there will be no patches released for these remotely executable vulnerabilities.

Though the QuickTime software still works in its current unpatched state, remote attackers can take advantage of the vulnerability after, by user interaction, a malicious file or web page is opened.

 

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