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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:56:05 +0200 From: Patrick Haruksteiner <haruk@....at> To: Doug White <dwhite@...bysoft.com> Subject: Re: Another Mac OS X ScreenSaver Security Issue (after Security Update 2003-07-14) On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 10:07 h, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Patrick Haruksteiner wrote: > >> I discoverd another security issue with the Mac OS X screensaver. >> If you have installed escapepod from Ambrosia Software and hit >> crtl-alt-delete(==backspace) when the screensaver with password >> protection is running, it kills the screensaver and the desktop is >> open to anybody - so it has the same effect as the recently >> emerged password-exploit. > > This is not a bug in Apple software. This is a third party extension. > > Ambrosia's Escape Pod is a utility that kills the frontmost app when > the > shortcut keystroke is typed. Naturally it does not ship with MacOS X. > > Since the screen saver is just another application (called > ScreenSaverEngine), if you hit the kill key when its running, it gets > killed. Fancy that! I know that! But it should be the concern of the OS that you cannot circumvent its security system with the help of other applications! -- harp
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