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Apple Remote Code Execution with Image Files

by Earl Carter blog.talosintel.com published 2016-07-19

Vulnerabilities discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos. Many of the wide variety of file formats are designed for specialized uses within specific industries. Apple offers APIs as interfaces to provide a definitive way to access image data for multiple image formats on the Apple OS X platform. Talos is

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