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Okay, so while I'm always glad when people notice some security holes, I just have to say this:
Rixstep 2006 and MacNN 2006 = Bynkii.com 2004
They're just now realizing that in Pre-Tiger versions of Mac OS X, there was a gaping security hole around /Library/StartupItems/, two years after it was first pointed out?
This was something that I, and others were pointing out almost two years ago. Really, we were. Read my article referenced above, I talk about it in paragraph 6 or so. I also recall those of us raising the issue being told "Well, that's not a real problem."
My, how times change. Luckily, Apple did take this issue seriously, and provided a good fix in Mac OS X 10.4. If nothing else, it's a great reason to update to Mac OS X 10.4, as it's a heck of a hole, and if you don't know about it, trivial to exploit.
So no, this is not some new exploit or hole, and it's been fixed for a while now, no matter how much the rest of the Mac web suddenly realizes it exists.
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Posted by John C. Welch at 10:46 | Permalink
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