Re: Security Issue ... was[What happens to ...]
Re: Security Issue ... was[What happens to ...]
- Subject: Re: Security Issue ... was[What happens to ...]
- From: Jonathan Hendry <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:59:55 -0500
On Friday, October 19, 2001, at 02:21 , Ondra Cada wrote:
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!
On the other hand, just _that_ app's menu becomes unusable. Switch to
any other application and you can access the Apple menu.
- J