Next to Firefox and Google Chrome, Apple’s Safari zaps all other browsers in terms of speed, stability and security. Web critters could barely dent the armor of these three browser. That is, until last week. Chinks began appearing of Safari. Hence,  Safari 3.2, launched last week, addressing several security issues, including phishing and identification of online businesses.  Apple announced that Safari 3.2, available for both Leopard and Tiger, and Windows Vista or XP offered “protection from fraudulent phishing websites and better identification of online businesses.”
Apple provided much needed  security updates.” The latter concerns JPEG and TIFF image handling, preventing certain malicious files from closing the program or executing an arbitrary code, as well as XML document processing, correcting a heap buffer overflow vulnerability. Critters tackled on the Windows side included covered checking and zlib 1.2.2 issues.

Patches for a problem that sometimes allowed form field information to be stored in the page cache, even if the autocomplete function was disabled slammed the backdoor on would-be hackers. Apple learned that this would disclose sensitive information to a local console user. Nonetheless, Apple’s patches quarreled with existing third party software, resulting in Safari hanging for many folks. Perhaps an update will patch this up.
Download Safari 3.2.1 for Tiger (Free)
Download Safari 3.2.1 for Leopard (Free)
Download Safari 3.2.1 for Windows XP / Vista (Free)

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