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January 19, 2005

Darwin not perfect


Apple

Security company Immunity has uncovered four vulnerabilities in the open-source operating system Mac OS X is based on called Darwin. The bugs were first discovered in June, during a large-scale source code audit of Darwin by Immunity's security research team. The vulnerabilities affecting all recent versions of OS X are caused by memory errors in the kernel. This kind of bug mostly affects remote systems with multiple users," David Aitel, founder and security consultant with Immunity told CNet News.com. This means most desktop users of the operating system will not be too badly affected. Flaws include: kernel problems; HFS catalog search; and a task scheduling logic bug.


Apple is now investigating the flaws.

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