{"id":596,"date":"2007-04-23T00:42:39","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T07:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/04\/23\/newsletter-386-preview-more-mac-security-monkey-business\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T15:18:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T22:18:18","slug":"newsletter-386-preview-more-mac-security-monkey-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/04\/newsletter-386-preview-more-mac-security-monkey-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #386 Preview: More Mac Security Monkey Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the lamer suggestions I heard from an instructor at some unmentionable educational institution some years back was that you could boost the number of graduates simply by lowering the standards. At the time, I thought the person who made this foolish statement probably could use a new job, perhaps one at a local fast food restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ll explain what I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m getting at shortly.<\/p>\n<p>To begin with, as Apple patches more and more security leaks in Mac OS X, you have to wonder when or if any of them will be exploited. I mean, if you read the nasty details of a typical problem, you can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t help but feel just a little less secure.<\/p>\n<p>Take the most recent update released this month. Among over two dozen fixes was one that addressed this deficiency: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cA memory corruption vulnerability exists in fsck. It is possible to cause fsck to be run automatically on a disk image when it is opened. By enticing a user to open a maliciously-crafted disk image, or to run fsck on any maliciously-crafted UFS filesystem, an attacker could trigger the issue which may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n<p>All right, we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve all got to be on the lookout for a \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cmaliciously-crafted UFS filesystem\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d or a \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cmaliciously-crafted disk image.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Heaven knows what\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ll happen.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, has there ever, anywhere, been such an attempt other than in a laboratory?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click here to read the rest of the story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2007\/04\/23\/newsletter-issue-386\/#laboratory\"><strong>Story continued in this week&#8217;s Tech Night Owl Newsletter.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the lamer suggestions I heard from an instructor at some unmentionable educational institution some years back was that you could boost the number of graduates simply by lowering the standards. 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