| Apple launches Safari 5, patches record 48 bugs |
| Posted: JP @ Sun Jun 13, 2025 10:02 pm |
| ComputerWorld wrote: | Apple launches Safari 5, patches record 48 bugs
Fixes flaw in browser that hacker team exploited at Pwn2Own to win $15,000
Apple on Monday shipped the latest version of its Safari browser, patching a record 48 vulnerabilities, including one that a pair of hackers exploited in March to win a $15,000 prize.
The new browser debuted the same day as Apple unveiled the iPhone 4 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference.
Safari 5, the first major upgrade to the Mac OS X and Windows browser in a year, fixed four dozen flaws, most of them in WebKit, the open-source engine that powers not only Apple's browser but also Google's Chrome. Apple also updated the previous edition to version 4.1 on Monday.
Among the 48 vulnerabilities was the one used by the two-man team of Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann to hack an Apple iPhone 3GS in five minutes at the Pwn2Own contest last March, said Aaron Portnoy, security research team lead with HP TippingPoint. TippingPoint's 's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) bug-bounty program paid the two researcher $15,000 -- a record amount for the four-year-old Pwn2Own -- for the Safari bug and exploit they used to break into the iPhone.
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