Italian teen finds two zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple's OS X<article>
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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 last week a
local privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by some miscreants to load questionable programs onto computers.</p><p>
Luca Todesco, 18,
posted details 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>
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Italian teen finds two zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple's OS X