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Apple Patches Wireless Drivers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-on-track dept.

Frank writes "Apple quietly released a pair of patches today to its wireless drivers. The patches (one for PowerPC, one for Intel) address distinct buffer overflow vulnerabilities found during an internal audit in response to the claim that fuzzing the drivers resulted in an exploitable failure."

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  1. Re:This does NOT make the SecureWorks story true! by aczisny · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    I'll let MacWorld say it for me:
    "They did not supply us with any information to allow us to identify a specific problem, so we initiated an internal audit," Apple spokesman, Anuj Nayar, told Macworld. "Today's update preemptively strengthens our drivers against potential vulnerabilities, and while it addresses issues found internally by Apple, we are open to hearing from security researchers on how to improve security on the Mac."
    (Emphasis mine)

    Talk about trying to weasel out of things. It was either a vulnerability, or it wasn't and didn't need patching. They patched it. It was a vulnerability. And gosh, doesn't that sound exactly like what SecureWorks said was the problem with a large number of drivers. Malformed packets that could allow you to launch processes with system access. Nope. Couldn't possibly be the same thing at all.

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    Now, landing thrusters.. landing thrusters, hmm. Now if I were a landing thruster, which one of these would I be?
  2. Re:There's no flaw, but heres a patch anyway by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm sure you'll have some bullshit excuse for when they do release their info. If Apple lets them.

  3. Re:This does NOT make the SecureWorks story true! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Its moron fanboi drones like you that make me stay away from Macs and keep everyone I know away from them too."

    Good. It's about time you and your beige friends learned to stay the fuck off our platform.

  4. Re:Hmm, maybe this will fix my kernel panics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Do the panics happen in GNU/Linux too? If so, then it's probably a hardware issue.
    Oh, you only run proprietary software on your Mac? Get off of Slashdot you corporate goon. This is news for nerds not news for middle class white boys in turtlenecks.