asciilifeform: ile descriptor is leaked into processes spawned by SUID binaries. This means child processes of SUID root processes can write to arbitrary files owned by the root user anywhere in the filesystem. This allows for easy privilege escalation in OS X 10.10.x.' << ahahahahaha
asciilifeform: 'When this variable was added the usual safeguards that are required when adding support for new environment variables to the dynamic linker have not been used. Therefore it is possible to use this new feature even with SUID root binaries. This is dangerous, because it allows to open or create arbitrary files owned by the root user anywhere in the file system. Furthermore the opened log file is never closed and therefore its f
asciilifeform: 'consistently broken' is not quite it. a 'consistently littered' city may have many dog turds, but one does not expect to find unexploded ordnance from ww2 on the sidewalk
