[MacTUG] MacOS 10.10 security vulnerability now being exploited
Mike Patterson
mpatterson at uwaterloo.ca
Tue Aug 4 20:27:29 EDT 2015
I posted this to MacTUG a while back, since it wasn't - yet - really being exploited in the wild.
The tl;dr is a fairly trivial to exploit issue that works on 10.10 (not 10.9, not 10.11 betas) allows root code execution.
It is now being exploited by malware:
https://blog.malwarebytes.org/mac/2015/08/dyld_print_to_file-exploit-found-in-the-wild/
Mike
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