Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Oct 2006 08:32 UTC, submitted by Jon Mchitel
Computer code that exploits a flaw in Apple's Mac OS X was released over the weekend. The code takes advantage of a weakness in core parts of Mac OS X and could let a user gain additional privileges. Apple provided a fix for the error-handling mechanism of the kernel last week, but the exploit appears to have been authored before then. "It appears to have been written well before the vulnerability was fixed," said Dino Dai Zovi, a researcher with Matasano Security who was credited by Apple with discovering the flaw when the patch was released. Obviously anything but spectacular (since it's fixed), but it does raise the age old question: will the growing popularity of both Linux and OS X lead to more of these exploits-- possibly one that does get released 'in time'?
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2006-04-21
Why was this modded up? Comparing MacOS X unfavourably to Windows by saying it is getting WORSE and Windows BETTER over the last five years (when in actual fact it's more like there is ONE new vulnerability we didn't know about in OS X after 5 years, and maybe 1,000 less (out of how many?) in Windows after 5 years) is just dishonest. You can reduce 2,000 bugs by 1,000, and maybe MS should be given credit for that, but you can't reduce 1 by 1,000.