Apple releases OS X version 10.10.5 with important security fixes
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Apple has released OS X version 10.10.5, and with it comes a bevy of fixes. Although the company states that this update "improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac," the star of the show here may be a fix for the DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE privilege escalation vulnerability. That bug was discovered by Stefan Esser, and it's apparently under attack in the wild. Esser had previously published an OS X kernel extension called SUIDGuard that users could install to mitigate the problem.
The story would end there, but there's one more thing. Esser has since tweeted that Apple "fixed some bugs and made another security problem worse" in 10.10.5. ...