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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. 1? by bennomatic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frist psot?

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    1. Re:1? by geoffrobinson · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You have the first psot I've ever seen.

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    2. Re:1? by bennomatic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah, I'm kind of ashamed, but it's so rare to get here before anyone else, and I had nothing useful to say.

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  2. you faiL 1t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and piss cocktail. Is wiped oof and

  3. Re:Age is irrelevant, resistance is futile. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The prison niggers appreciate those crackers in Apple be making iphones. Now we know we have whitey looking after iphones and we look to take white chicks up the ass. It be the best thing to run a train on a chubby low self esteem white chick, fucking her pussy and asshole all night long. It is almost as good as tapping some puerto rican ass, but that shit is tighter and when that bitch get violent (PR chicks always do) we just duct tape that mouth shut while we take turns cumming in that ass over and over. Mexican bitches be the best cause you can run up on a bitch with a fat ass in broad daylight and run a pimp train on that bitch in her anus and that immigrant husband won't do shit. When we got some gay ass niggers who want to fuck some male asshole, we just run up on a mexican man, who they gonna report. Sometimes we just abduct the bitch to our projects apartment for the week and fuck the shit out of her, until we get tired of that bitch. White bitches are more fun though, sometimes when the bitch is chubby and horny enough we just fuck her through for 2 weeks and come back in another week cause her fat ass is ready for more. Smack bitches with a 10 inch cock. I once raped this indian chick, she was mad weak, so i got my boys to run a train on her that lasted 3 days. She looked like frosty the snowman after we all got done with cumming on her. She got that shit so hard she must of spit cum for a month. I recently visted her and punched her in the face before I got inside that ass again. We be abnormal.

  4. Re:Age is irrelevant, resistance is futile. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...appreciate those crackers in Apple be making iphones....

    I noticed you used the word "crackers" instead of "hackers". Interesting.