A vulnerability has been identified in Apple Safari for Windows, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by errors within the combination of the default download location in Safari and how the Windows desktop handles executables, which could be exploited by attackers to cause malicious files to be downloaded to a user's machine without prompting, allowing them to be executed.
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Vulnerability reported by the vendor.
ChangeLog
2008-06-02 : Initial release
2008-06-20 : Updated Solution
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