Apple Patches USB Code Execution Flaw in macOS

  • 22 November 2017
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By Ionut Arghire on November 22, 2017
 
One of the vulnerabilities addressed by Apple in its latest set of security patches for macOS is an arbitrary code execution flaw, which could be exploited via malicious USB devices.
 
Discovered by Trend Micro security researchers and reported to Apple in April this year, the issue resides in fsck_msdos, a system tool designed to check for and fix errors in devices formatted with the FAT filesystem.
 
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Instead worrying about how much oil they have...........they need to stay proactive on cyber security.................

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