Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
Mac OS X buffer overflow vulnerability published
Earlier today SecurityReason released a proof of concept for the buffer overflow vulnerability found in libc gdtoa() function which is used by printf(). The index array overflow was first reported by researcher Maksymilian Arciemowicz last June. The advisory describes a flaw in the libc/gdtoa code in OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X, as [...]
Apple’s GCD has been ported to FreeBSD
The FreeBSD developer team has demonstrated how easy it was to port Apple's Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) technology. It has been reported that out of the box support should appear in FreeBSD 8.1. The important thing to understand is that because of the dev team's effort other project will find it even easier to port this technology to their [...]
