 Mac OS X reported to have six New Zero-Day vulnerabilities
Mac OS X reported to have six New Zero-Day vulnerabilities
The latest incoming reports suggest that the Apple Mac OS X has at least six zero-day vulnerabilities. This was reported by an independent researcher who claimed that all of these are capable of crashing applications or the operating system. Some of these are even serious enough to enable hackers hijacking the systems.
Four of these reported six bugs are related to the process Mac’s OS parses various image file formats like BMP, TIFF, and GIF. One of them is related to how OS X decompresses malformed ZIP archives. Some affects the Mac OS X’s Safari web browser product.
Tom Ferris is the guy behind these latest revelations and he posted his findings on his Security Protocols site. He added that these flaws affect both the latest and the earlier iterations of the Mac OS X.
Danish vulnerability tracker Secunia has also acknowledged these flaws and collectively rated them as “Highly critical” on Friday.
Ferris has given in his research page the basic proof-of-concept code. He added that the company was informed in January and February about these issues though they are yet to patch any of these flaws. Apple has declined to comment on these reports in the media. | 
22-04-2006
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