Safari 5.1's sandboxing feature marks the second time when such technology was implemented in a browser after Google Chrome and will probably mark a trend in browser development. Even though Mac owners have recently been the target of malware attacks also, those were mostly based on social engineering and required user interaction.
Such attacks are usually transparent to the victims and have long been used to target Windows users. Many of the vulnerabilities patched in these two releases can be exploited in drive-by download attacks to infect users with malware.
GOOGLE CHROME FOR SAFARI 5.0.6 MAC OS X
On the Mac platform, Safari 5.1 comes installed by default with the new Mac OS X Lion. The new versions are 5.0.6 and 5.1 which contains additional security and privacy technologies like sandboxing, private autofill and do-not-track (DNT) header. Apple has released new versions of its Safari browser for Windows and Mac addressing a number of 56 vulnerabilities many of which allow for remote code execution.Īs usually, a large number of vulnerabilities were patched in the WebKit layout engine and were reported downstream by researchers working through Google's Chromium Security Rewards program.
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