Oh, bull. A userland application like Safari (or any other application) should be able to make a mistaken, stupid, or malicious system call (e.g. "Crash System NOW") and the operating system should refuse to do so. It's the OS's responsibility to refuse to do bad things.
What if the "application" were a malicious piece of software? You're really claiming that the "security flaw" is in the hacker's code?
Geez, fella. Learn something about computer security before you make stupid accusations.
Are you saying Apple’s Safari is a malicious piece of software?
I agree with you....When you down load an executable, you either give it permission to run on your system or you don’t. The OS cannot protect itself from user inflicted dumbsh!tness.....you ignorant puffed up smidgeon of blowfish sh!t
While this is most likely a Microsoft issue, it is possible that Safari installed itself in such a way to access Ring 0.
You are correct an application should never be able to crash an OS. this has to be taken care of at the OS level ultimately..