The Story of a Simple and Dangerous Mac OS X Kernel Bug

   
Created On: Tuesday September 01, 2009
Description: "Among other things, the update for Mac OS X 10.5.8 also fixed an interesting kernel bug related to the way the fcntl call is handled. The bug was identified as CVE-2009-1235 and the first exploit seems to be from June 2008. The variant that I discovered is much simpler and is, as far as I know, the one that really convinced Apple to solve the issue. The oldest kernel I was able to test the probl..(more)
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