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Apple Offers Fix For Apache HFS Security Hole

Posted by timothy on from the filling-holes dept.

yuck72 writes: "According to an article http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/News/2001-06-15.0 1.html on Stepwise, Apple has apparently open-sourced their mod_hfs (and others) for Apache which provides a fix for the HFS security hole that was discovered last week." Source code for the Apple-created modules is released under the APSL, while the other fixes are under the GPL.

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  1. Re:something by inasmuchas · · Score: 2
    Well, no, not newsworthy as a bugfix.

    A main point is that Apple was criticized and responded with an open-source fix which we can audit, verify, and improve.

    It also hints at the precedent that Apple's future responses to these sorts of issues will permit scrutiny by the open-source community. Apple is being closely watched to see how friendly they are to us. So far they're quite friendly. This is reassuring.