Mac security vendor Intego has claimed that any exploit that targets a Windows computer will also affect Macs. Apart from the relatively trivial case of an exploit intended only to crash QuickTime, this may not be true. While the vulnerability may be cross-platform, an exploit would need to be targeted to an operating system. That said, writing an exploit that takes advantage of a shared vulnerability to deliver system-specific payloads is an established technique.
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