Care to post a link? A. On 19 May 2004, at 08:44, John Francis wrote:
Hot on the heels of the assurances that OS/X is secure, and not susceptible to the same sorts of exploits Windows suffers from, comes the news that there's a gaping great hole in OS/X as shipped.
Basically, the AppleHelp service can be used to execute an arbitrary shell-level script. (rm -rf /, anybody?)
I'd suggest any OS/X users here might want to disable that service.