Re: Security Issue ... was[What happens to ...]
Re: Security Issue ... was[What happens to ...]
- Subject: Re: Security Issue ... was[What happens to ...]
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:21:28 +0100
Darkshadow,
>
>>>>> Darkshadow (D) wrote at Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:11:58 -0400:
D> >I doubt it. I suspect it's due to the fact that the menu itself
D> >is owned and operated by an suid-root application....
D>
D> This looks to be the reason. You can do this with any app being run as
Yeah, it seems the Apple menu is operated by the app indeed: just try to
make an app which locks (an old good "while (1);" suffices), and the apple
menu becomes unuseable!
That's another bug, somewhat annoying, but with an extremely easy
workaround, of course (switching to another app).
I guess Apple should cure all those problems in one big sweep by excluding
the Apple menu from the current application's care.
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