The Dawn of OSX Worms – Renepo/Leap-A

2004 and 2006 A few years after the release of OS X, 2004 brought a new shell script worm called Renepo. The worm’s main goal was to disable Mac OS X’s firewall and security settings. It also installed tools for password-sniffing and made key system directories world-writeable, undetected. The wo...

CVE-2007-0023

The CFUserNotificationSendRequest function in UserNotificationCenter.app in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, when used in combination with diskutil, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious InputManager in Library/InputManagers in a user's home directory, which is executed when Cocoa...

CVE-2007-0023

The CFUserNotificationSendRequest function in UserNotificationCenter.app in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, when used in combination with diskutil, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious InputManager in Library/InputManagers in a user's home directory, which is executed when Cocoa...