Apple on Tuesday patched the security vulnerability in Safari that was successfully exploited at last month's Pwn2Own hacking contest, where a team cracked the browser to win $65,000. The Cupertino, Calif. company seeded updates for both Safari 6 and Safari 7 yesterday, promoting the former to version 6.1.3 and the latter to 7.0.3. Safari 6.x runs on OS X 10.7, aka Lion, and OS X 10.8, better known as Mountain Lion. Safari 7.x runs on OS X 10.9, or Mavericks. Apple patched 27 vulnerabilities in Safari 6 and Safari 7, all in WebKit, the open-source browser engine that powers Safari, and all but one considered critical in that they could allow, the company said, "arbitrary code execution," Apple's terminology for the most serious bugs. <more>
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