Well, it was only a matter of time before a major Mac vulnerability came out. It happens. Deal with it.
Move along folks…nothing to see here…move along.
From Secunia:
Description:
LMH has reported a vulnerability in Mac OS X, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges or by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in com.apple.AppleDiskImageController when handling corrupted DMG image structures. This can be exploited to cause a memory corruption and may allow execution of arbitrary code in kernel-mode.
The vulnerability is reported in a fully patched Mac OS X (2006-11-20). Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Deactivate the option “opening safe files after downloading” in the preferences and grant only trusted users access to affected systems.
Tags: Apple, Mac OS X, Memory Corruption, Vulnerability
