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MoAB does DMG (again) E-mail
by Stephen Withers   
Saturday, 13 January 2007
The Month of Apple Bugs' LMH has found another way of malforming a disk image file (DMG) to cause a kernel panic.

"This issue can't lead to arbitrary code execution", wrote LMH, "although filesystem corruption has been observed when other UFS filesystems have been mounted and have pending read/write operations." This means that an attempt to exploit the bug could be more than a nuisance.

"There are other potential issues in the ufs_lookup() function which will be covered by future MoAB releases," he warned.{moscomment}
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