Re: Mac OS X vulnerabilities

[Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>]

You're commenting on 1 of 14 issues listed in
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798

I am perfectly capable of reading the CVE entries, and deciding, issue
by issue, if it's worth fixing, and if so, how to fix it.  However,
being a security expert should not be a requirement for using a
commericial OS.  If these issues are worthy of fixing, they should be
fixed in 10.2.8.

Adam

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:58:54PM -0500, James Kelly wrote:
| This vulnerability is much ado about nothing
| It was caused by developers of shareware using third party installers 
| which changed the permissions on certain
| directories of MacOS X.
| 
| Problem largely solved with the increased use of Apple's installer
| 
| AND
| 
| problem is easily fixed by adding this command to a root cron job.
| 
| diskutil repairpermissions /
| 
| Above command can be run every day for your paranoia protection ;-)
| 
| 
| jamesk
| 

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