Extremely Critical Mac OS X _MACOSX Vulnerability

By admin | Feb 21, 2006
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Mac OS X.jpgSecunia has issued another very critical security warning. This vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched Mac OS X system using the Safari browser, Safari 2.0.3 (417.8) and Mac OS X 10.4.5. The vulnerability was discovered by Michael Lehn

“The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of file association meta data (stored in the “__MACOSX” folder) in ZIP archives. This can be exploited to trick users into executing a malicious shell script renamed to a safe file extension stored in a ZIP archive.”



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3 Comments so far
  1. earadriede February 21, 2006 2:05 pm

    omg. thank you.

  2. Administrator February 21, 2006 3:13 pm

    you’re welcome - glad to be of help! nice design btw. i really like the overlay buttons at the bottom.

  3. Josh February 21, 2006 11:41 pm

    Wow I always thought Mac’s we’re really secure. They need to fix this stuff if they ever want to gain an edge.

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