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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: Xeen on 19 May 2004, 23:34

Title: Extremely Critical Hole Found!
Post by: Xeen on 19 May 2004, 23:34
Article (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=74&e=3&u=/cmp/20040519/tc_cmp/20600174)
Title: Extremely Critical Hole Found!
Post by: Refalm on 20 May 2004, 03:27
Wait... is this a problem of the GUI (which is propietry) or the core (which is certified Open Source)?

Also, very weird that IE and Safari share the same problem, because their rendering system is completely different (IE has a crappy Mosaic-based engine and Safari is using KHTML).
Title: Extremely Critical Hole Found!
Post by: Paladin9 on 20 May 2004, 05:04
No problem here.  I use Firefox on my mac.
Title: Extremely Critical Hole Found!
Post by: jtpenrod on 23 May 2004, 11:05
How critical is it really?
 
quote:

Secunia says there's no easy way to fix the flaw but advises users not to visit "untrusted" Web sites and to not surf the Internet as a privileged user.


We already knew that Internet Deplorer sux mightily on Win-Doesn't, so how is it such a big surprise that it would suck on the Mac as well?   :eek:  

Secondly, you never run any *NIX as root.   :rolleyes:   If you make this a habit, you deserve what you get.   (http://tongue.gif)  
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Title: Extremely Critical Hole Found!
Post by: WMD on 24 May 2004, 07:32
On Mac "root" is actually hidden.  The "Administrator" on Mac is slightly limited.  I wonder if this bug is in between that.
Title: Extremely Critical Hole Found!
Post by: Paladin9 on 24 May 2004, 21:46
quote:
Originally posted by WMD:
On Mac "root" is actually hidden.  The "Administrator" on Mac is slightly limited.  I wonder if this bug is in between that.


Root is not hidden.  It is just disabled by defalt.  I have root enabled on my mac.