[Discuss] OSX Mavericks root exploit, and Safari

[Richard Pieri]

On 4/17/2015 9:26 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
> I'd like to alert people that OSX Mavericks has a root exploit that
> will not be fixed. All Mac users must immediately update to Yosemite
> in order to maintain any semblance of security.

Cutting through the hyperbole....

It's a local privilege escalation vulnerability nicknamed rootpipe. It 
can be mitigated by doing one thing: don't run as an administrator 
account. Standard user accounts cannot be used to exploit this 
vulnerability.

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Rich P.