Month of the Apple bugs has started
Well, what a start to the new year: a remote stack overflow 
Juicy bits here.
Apple has had it good for too long - its better this happens now then when OSX useage becomes more (hopefully much more) widespread.
And yes I love both my Macs, and no I'm not some 20 year old lamer, and yes I do know how to write my own shellcode.
Juicy bits here.
Apple has had it good for too long - its better this happens now then when OSX useage becomes more (hopefully much more) widespread.
And yes I love both my Macs, and no I'm not some 20 year old lamer, and yes I do know how to write my own shellcode.
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What is a remote stack overflow?
My layperson understanding is this. Various programs accept "input" over the web. Now, usually, this "input" data is limited to the right amount, like, typing your name into a form, or streaming video coming into your quicktime or windows media player or winamp or whatever.
"Stack overflow" is a means whereby some hacker could possibly, instead of "inputtting" the right amount of data, they send a huge massive chunk of stuff through the input of your application. So the application is "overloaded" and the "memory" is overflowed. When this happens, somehow the application is "cracked" (because of the overflow happening) and they can then input data to "control" the application, which normally of course the application doesn't allow such "control".
My very basic understanding.