A new critical vulnerability titled “Rootpipe” affecting the Mac OS X operating system has been discovered courtesy of Swedish security researcher and consultant Emil Kvarnhammar (@emilkvarnhammar).
The vulnerability allows the malicious user the ability to escalate administrative privileges on a compromised system as well as allows them to obtain the highest level of access known as “root’ access. In doing so, the malicious user could bypass the built-in safeguards that are supposed to stop individuals who try to root the operating system through a temporary backdoor.
more here..........http://www.securityorb.com/2014/11/rootpipe-vulnerability/
The vulnerability allows the malicious user the ability to escalate administrative privileges on a compromised system as well as allows them to obtain the highest level of access known as “root’ access. In doing so, the malicious user could bypass the built-in safeguards that are supposed to stop individuals who try to root the operating system through a temporary backdoor.
more here..........http://www.securityorb.com/2014/11/rootpipe-vulnerability/