[X-Unix] Question about the latest security updates

[William H. Magill]

On 08 Jun, 2004, at 16:17, luke wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 8, 2004, at 02:14  AM, RP McKay wrote:
>> Bloody Hell, I have both security updates and 10.3.4 installed and the
>> exploit still works, *even in English*, let alone other languages.
>>
>> I repaired permissions as well (been a while) just to see if that 
>> would help
>> and it did do repairs to CoreServices files and I also rebooted for 
>> good
>> measure...still the exploit works.
>>
>> Unbelievable but sadly true, thanks for the info William.
>
>
> just what exactly is the 'exploit' doing on your machine?
>
> i even tried sending destructive command through the so-called 
> exploit...  nothing.
>
> i tried non-destructive exploits too...  nada
>
> and this was all BEFORE i ran any security patches.

Read today's update on the Security patch problems....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/09/apple_security/


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William H. Magill
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