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Posted on entry Bleeping huge security hole ::: May 18, 2004, 10:30 PM:
d'oh, I'm slow and don't preview correctly even when I'm forced to. Sorry about that less understandable echo of Jay. :-[

Yoon: I haven't read whether this affects anything but Panther (though I rather suspect it does :-( )
Posted on entry Bleeping huge security hole ::: May 18, 2004, 10:27 PM:
No, I don't think it can run "rm -rf /", because the executable name can't have spaces in it (so you can't pass arguments to shell commands).

But what a malicious person CAN do is remotely mount a disk image which contains a script with no spaces in it's name which calls "rm -rf /", which is in turn executed by this flaw.

More complicated, but the same sad result :)

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