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Ancient Flaws May Leave Mac OS X Vulnerable

Posted by Zonk on from the patch-to-the-left-patch-to-the-right dept.

mdeb writes "ZDNet Australia is running a story that claims Mac OS X 'contains unpatched security flaws of a type that were fixed on alternative operating systems more than a decade ago.' As an example, in August of last year, Apple patched the 'dsidentity' bug, which could easily have been exploited to grant a non-privileged user with admin rights the capability to create and remove 'root' user accounts."

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  1. Re:Big f-in deal by i+kan+reed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    now that you've gone and said that, i went and tested it... WITH A GUEST ACCOUNT. and suprise! doesn't work.