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Title: Italian teen finds two zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple's OS X Post by: HCK on August 18, 2015, 03:00:15 pm Italian teen finds two zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple's OS X
<article> <section class="page"> <p> An Italian teenager has found two zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple’s OS X operating system that could be used to gain remote access to a computer.</p><p> The finding comes after Apple patched (https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT205031) last week a local privilege escalation vulnerability (https://www.sektioneins.de/en/blog/15-07-07-dyld_print_to_file_lpe.html) that was used by some miscreants to load questionable programs onto computers.</p><p> Luca Todesco (https://twitter.com/qwertyoruiop), 18, posted details (https://github.com/kpwn/tpwn) of the exploit he developed on GitHub. The exploit uses two bugs to cause a memory corruption in OS X’s kernel, he wrote via email.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2971772/security/italian-teen-finds-two-zeroday-vulnerabilities-in-os-x.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Italian teen finds two zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple's OS X (http://www.macworld.com/article/2971772/security/italian-teen-finds-two-zeroday-vulnerabilities-in-os-x.html#tk.rss_all) |