Security News > 2015 > August > Researcher releases exploit for OS X 0-day that gives root access (Help Net Security)

2015-08-18 10:27
Italian security researcher Luca Todesco has published PoC exploit code for a newly discovered zero-day privilege escalation flaw affecting OS X Yosemite (v10.10) and Mavericks (v10.9). Symantec e...
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