http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1597220/mac-os-x-zero-day-flaws By Nick Farrell The Inquirer March 19 2010 WHILE THE THINK DIFFERENT COMPANY Apple continues to smugly tell users that its OS is safer than Windows, an insecurity expert has claimed that it has 20 zero day security flaws. Security researcher Charlie Miller, who is already known for having discovered a number of bugs in Mac OS X, told Heise Security that the holes are found in closed source Apple products. He said that the attack surface of OS X is so wide you can land a 747 on it, sideways. There are bugs in the open source components and vulnerabilities in the closed source third-party and Apple components. All of which can lead to remote compromise of the Mac OS X operating system. Miller found all the holes by fuzzing, which involves bombarding an application's input channels with as much corrupted data as possible. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Mon Mar 22 2010 - 23:33:02 PDT
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