Rob,Why put this on the web rather than inform Apple directly? or am
I missing something. I will be very interested to hear Shay's
comments
Mac
I'm sure Apple already knows about it as it's already done the rounds
of Macintouch etc.
Yes, it's a security hole :) Also relatively easily exploitable,
sadly. It does require the user to launch a URL to start the problem
happening (not that it's hard to do, you could just mail the URL to
the WAMUG list, for example :)
Until Apple fixes it I've installed MisFox and changed the helper for
the 'help' URL type to something other than the 'help' application.
<http://www.clauss-net.de/misfox/misfox.html>
This may of course affect the functioning of Apple's Help
application, so if you're a big user of it you might need to do
something else.
As always, good backups are cheap insurance. (Something I was
reminding myself of as I watched the exploit run and open the
Terminal window :)
Have fun,
Shay
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