{"id":447,"date":"2005-08-18T09:49:56","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T13:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=447"},"modified":"2005-08-18T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T13:50:16","slug":"for-all-those-who-say-that-if-you-want-security-you-get-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"For all those who say that if you want security, you get a Mac&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New patches have been released for Mac OS X today (which should be downloadable via Mac&#8217;s auto update tool).  <a href=\"http:\/\/securityfocus.com\/news\/11282\">What&#8217;s striking is what the vulnerability is, and how it can be exploited<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Included among the patches are repairs to AppKit which prevent malicious users exploiting buffer overflows with carefully crafted .rtf and .doc files, executing malware stored within those files or allowing the coder to add extra user accounts to the system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, malicious code in .doc files is no surprise, but .rtf files?!  Rich text?!  In the Windows world, the common wisdom is that it&#8217;s safer (and more courteous) to send files in e-mail attachments as rtf rather than MS-Word.  It&#8217;s unbelievable that OS X is vulenrable even in rtf mode!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac OS X is vulenrable to carefully crafted .rtf files.  RTF?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}