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The Story of a Simple and Dangerous OS X Kernel Bug

Posted by timothy on from the chink-in-the-armor dept.

RazvanM writes "At the beginning of this month the Mac OS X 10.5.8 closed a kernel vulnerability that lasted more than 4 years, covering all the 10.4 and (almost all) 10.5 Mac OS X releases. This article presents some twitter-size programs that trigger the bug. The mechanics are so simple that can be easily explained to anybody possessing some minimal knowledge about how operating systems works. Beside being a good educational example this is also a scary proof that very mature code can still be vulnerable in rather unsophisticated ways."

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  1. Re:But it's not Windows! by bonch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Same could be said for Linux! Right? Right? Being open source makes it invulnerable?

  2. Re:I'm a Mac by mwvdlee · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    http://www.google.nl/search?q=malware+mac says it all. Now get those ads off the air.

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