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Oh SNAP! Old-school '80s Unix hack to smack OSX, iOS, Red Hat?

Posted by bob on · 3 comments
The Register; By John Leyden 		Mail this story
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Unix-based systems, as used worldwide by sysadmins and cloud providers alike, could be hijacked by hackers abusing a hard-coded vuln that allows them to inject arbitrary commands into shell scripts executed by high-privilege users.

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Comments (3)

BFM ·
Whenever I see one of these posts from security outfits I wonder where the money is going to go. This especially true when it is posted in a rag like the Register. If they did indeed notify affected parties, the Unix and Linux systems already have update patches. I am not so sure about Apple. They tend to be late.
jdixon ·
When I saw this section of a sentence: "into shell scripts executed by high-privilege users.", my brain immediately went tilt and I stopped reading. I don't know about you, but my system doesn't have "high-privilege users" that execute shell scripts from unknown sources.
CFWhitman ·
What is even the point? This is not a new thing; it literally is from the eighties. This is non-news.

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