On 4/17/2015 9:26 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
I'd like to alert people that OSX Mavericks has a root exploit that
will not be fixed. All Mac users must immediately update to Yosemite
in order to maintain any semblance of security.
Cutting through the hyperbole....
It's a local privilege escalation vulnerability nicknamed rootpipe. It
can be mitigated by doing one thing: don't run as an administrator
account. Standard user accounts cannot be used to exploit this
vulnerability.
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Rich P.
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