OS X Yosemite Security Flaw Discovered

Apple is extremely proud of their OS X, no doubt about it, but having said that, even the road to hell is paved with good intentions. While the OS X is a great operating system, this does not mean that it does not come without its fair share of flaws. No sir, there are also warts and all in the OS X from Apple, and it looks like a potentially dangerous and serious security flaw was picked up by a Swedish hacker.

This Swedish hacker is said to be the one who stumbled across the so-called “rootpipe” vulnerability in other previous OS versions from Apple. It seems that making several minor modifications would then enable such a similar exploit where Yosemite is concerned.

With “rootpipe”, someone with malicious intent will be able to obtain root privileges from an administration account, and will be able to run sudo commands so that it is possible to bypass the standard security measures that are taken by the OS itself. It seems that Apple will most likely patch this particular law some time in January next year, so it might be wiser to make sure you conform to the standard issue safety recommendations. It looks like when it rains, it pours for Yosemite.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Apple
Tags: OS X, yosemite