yabos
join:2003-02-16
London, ON | reply to knightmb
Re: The flaw is still there of course..... Device drivers are loaded into the kernel so that's how the flawed driver can be exploited to gain root access. Plus they had to install a rootkit first before they could even exploit the 3rd party driver. The problem with their demo was they said how every Mac was vulnerable which wasn't true since it's highly unlikely they'd be using this 3rd party wireless card. All Apple laptops have built in wireless cards so there's not much of a need to use another card.
Since they say the same problem can happen on Windows, how many Windows users will update their drivers? Microsoft doesn't usually distribute 3rd party drivers and neither does Apple. |
