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From: krispykringle at gentoo.org (Dan Margolis)
Subject: Re: Full-Disclosure digest, Vol 1 #2093 - 36
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Randall Craig wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:58:02 -0600, Randall Craig <rgcraig@...il.com> wrote:
>  Ok I am super duper new to this list and also new to *nix... i will
>  never go back to M$ ceptin for gaming purposes... I am running on OS
>  X.3.3 and was wanting to know if the Security Alert pertaining to
>  FreeBSD would also affect my system. I know that BSD is running
>  underneath OS X... I am fairly sure that Apple is aware of it by
>  now-.
>  thnx

No. When people comment that OSX runs on BSD, they don't mean that OSX
actually runs a FreeBSD kernel. It does not (it runs XNU, based on Mach
but incorporating BSD code). Read
[http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_xnu.html] for more information.

Specifically regarding this vulnerability, MacOSX does not have procfs
(/proc on systems that have it), so it's hard to imagine that it is
subject to this vulnerability.

On a side-note, Apple is pretty tightlipped about vulnerabilities (much
the way Microsoft used to be, though they *seem* to be learning their
lesson, from what I've heard). Apple should follow the lead set by other
vendors and recognize that once a vulnerability is public, the
responsible path is to acklowedge and publish workarounds or fixes, not
deny the problem until a final solution is available.

Dan
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Dan "KrispyKringle" Margolis
Security Coordinator/Audit Project, Gentoo Linux
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