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  • Zero-day exploit can bypass rootless on Mac to modify the system without detection

    03/27/2016 12:18:07 AM PDT · by Swordmaker · 16 replies
    Digital Trends ^ | March 25, 2016 | By Justin Pot
    A zero-day exploit affecting Mac OS X allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on any binary. That’s not good, and it gets worse. The exploit bypasses System Identity Protection (SIP, sometimes called rootless), and is almost impossible to trace once implemented. Apple has been notified and a patch is on the way.“Our researchers recently uncovered a major flaw which allows for local privilege escalation and bypass of System Integrity Protection, Apple’s newest protection feature,” wrote SentinelOne in a blog post announcing the discovery. A talk given by Pedro Vilaça at SyScan360, a security conference in downtown Singapore this week, outlined...