[ShadowAce]

[Thane_Banquo]

when opened in Apple's Safari web browser

Then the title should read "Apple's Safari has critical security flaw," but of course the Apple iPologist press would never admit that.

[Mr. K]

Microsoft always has a problem with a long jump to a far pointer

I have seen them screw that up every time

[NonValueAdded]

So who uses Safari as their browser on a Windows OS? I doubt Apple is too concerned about giving priority to that interoperability test.

[Uri’el-2012]

Exceptionally POOR testing at micro$oft !

[for-q-clinton]

So all 3 users of Safari are impacted. Yes this shouldn’t crash the system, but we do need to find out why it is before we blame MS. It will probably be a windows issue, but it is possible that safari introduced it.

Before anyone says a usermode app shouldn’t allow that...we don’t know if Safari did something at ring 0. It’s doubtful but it is possible.

[ctdonath2]

The fix is obviously to upgrade the operating system to OS X.

[OneVike]

I am not a computer geek, but I have used a pc for almost 20 years now, and in those years I have seen the progression of pcs take me from knowing alot to making me stupid.

Currently I have a 64-bit pc runs with Vista’s OS. Before I purchased this pc, my old one used XP, and Safari was one of the browsers I used at times. So when I upgraded to this 64-bit with Vista I installed the software I wanted and Safari was the last thing I installed.

Well, within a week, my pc started shutting down and I even saw a few blue windows where IU was warned of problems. I immediately uninstalled safari and never had a problem again.

So the problem of Safari also seems to effect 64-bit windows that run Vista, at least it did for me. So to me this is nothing new.

[cynwoody]

The offending script is just an IFRAME tag with an overly large height attribute.

A while back, I had an issue kind of like that on my Mac. I needed to check out an FRx report (part of the Microsoft Great Plains accounting system). So, I fired up a Windows virtual machine I hadn't used in months and tried to start FRx. It promptly bombed on some sort of arithmetic overflow error every time. It had worked fine in the same VM the last time I'd used it.

The VM was running full-screen on my new 30-inch external monitor. Wondering if that might be the problem, I switched the VM to run in a normal application window, which I sized to something like 1600x1200, the size of my old external monitor (down from 2560x1600 at full-screen). FRx then ran fine in its own window within the VM's window. It turned out what mattered was the overall screen size, not FRx's application window size.

[Quix]

HMMMMM

Perhaps . . . have you been using Safari?

[Joya]

Thanks for this info. Helpful to me.