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If an attacker can entice a user to visit an attacker controlled web page, the vulnerable ActiveX control could be invoked to download an attacker-modified package.

According to Apple's advisory accompanying the patch, the actual vulnerability was not in the Safari browser but in the way ATS (Apple Type Services) handles certain fonts.

Apple's security has always been a tumultuous area of conversation among Mac and iPhone aficionados. On the one hand, you are always hearing things like "the Mac is easier to break into than Windows 7" or the "iPhone isn't safe enough for Enterprise!" But when has there ever been an outbreak among Apple machines?

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