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Safari Vulnerability Worth Taking Note of

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Feb 2006 17:59 UTC

"[Last week], we reported on a Trojan horse for Mac OS X that is just like the entry for Earth in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in that it is mostly harmless. A new vulnerability targeted at Apple's home-grown web browser, Safari, is another matter entirely. A German security firm appears to have been the first to discover the Safari flaw, which allows for shell scripts to be executed after clicking a link."

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RE: Second new worm for MAC

by el3ktro on Tue 21st Feb 2006 19:15 UTC in reply to "Second new worm for MAC"

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2006-01-10

Well the thing is that this "rm -rf /" script wouldn't do anything on my system. I could run it here, right now, it would fail horribly.

Tom

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RE[2]: Second new worm for MAC

by ColdZero on Tue 21st Feb 2006 19:35 in reply to "RE: Second new worm for MAC"

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2006-02-21

I'm going to guess not many people care about rm -rf / but would be more concered with rf -rf ~/ which would be far more devestating than having to do a reinstall. Oh and it doesn't require any authentication.

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RE[3]: Second new worm for MAC

by el3ktro on Tue 21st Feb 2006 20:00 in reply to "RE[2]: Second new worm for MAC"

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2006-01-10

I agree, but this is not at all a Linux problem, you can do the same in Windows. Against such attacks the only things that really help are regular backups, a thing which many people don't do, well I do it daily, and it really makes me sleep better.

Tom

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