Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently

Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by fullstop on Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:41PM (#23182748)

Have you seen qubes os? [1] Obviously this would not work on OS X, but the concept is fascinating and definitely a different and unique approach at security and isolation.

1. https://www.qubes-os.org/

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by VistaBrokeMyPC on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:02PM (#23183075)

Qubes is great but be careful... I tried giving a specific usb port to a windows vm to play games with a joystick and accidentally gave all of my USB inputs to it, effectively locking myself out of dom0. Oops.

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by zouhair on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:53PM (#23183752)

That's the UNIX philosophy.

    Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

[0]: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1293001

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by pkulak on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:16PM (#23183260)

That looks really fun, thank you. I'm going to check this out.. maybe in a VM :D.

I really like these kinds of projects. NixOS and Fedora Silverblue are a couple others.

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by WrtCdEvrydy on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:59PM (#23183832)

Qubes isn't designed to run in a VM, but it can.

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