Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 13th May 2006 22:03 UTC
Apple's security update train rumbled into the station late May 11 with fixes for a whopping 43 Mac OS X and QuickTime vulnerabilities. The company's Security Update 2006-003 patches 31 flaws in the Mac OS X, most of them serious enough to cause 'arbitrary code execution attacks'. Apple also shipped QuickTime 7.1 as a major security overhaul to correct 12 code execution and denial-of-service flaws.
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2006-01-08
I'll let the other reply to your post educate you on "sudo"
1) Apple fixes 43 possible flaws. That can only be good news. Would you rather have them NOT fix anything?
I rather them find most of the faults before releasing a version which millions of Mac users trust their data to.
2) a "flaw" does not mean an actual virus or other piece of malware in the real world is actually abusing it.
And your sitting down 24/7 to examine all the packets to confirm that?
Just because it's not widespread doesn't mean it's not occuring.
3) so you enterd your root password into an alert box that asked for it and then got "owned" (whatever that means). Entirely your OWN fault, a very stupid thing to do. Besides.... that is called a TROJAN and is not a virus and has NOTHING to do with the 43 fixed security flaws that Apple fixed.
Who said anything about virus? Not me.
And sure it has to do with the many flaws in Mac OS X or it wouldn't have gotten on my box in the first place.
It even used the name of a offical Apple process, which I ran by the Knowledge Base for confirmation, sounded good so I gave it the go.
Now what was stupid about that?