Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Jun 2008 11:13 UTC
On OSNews, we try to steer away from speaking of specific security incidents, trojans, or viruses, unless they are in one way or the other special, or very influential. Over the course of the past 12 months or so, many incidents concerning Mac security arose, but most, if not all, were lemons: they required the user to actively enter his administrator password, or to manually launch the malicious program. In my book, these cases do not constitute as serious breaches of security, and hence, OSNews ignored them. However, a new security breach has been making rounds around the internet lately, which does pose a serious breach in security.
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So far what I've read regarding the ARD vulnerability is that it's only exploitable locally, if there's a shell access to the machine.
The article doesn't specify any attack vectors. How do we get the malware? Opening a website crashes Safari? Opening an attachment crashes Mail? They don't say.