Mac operating system vulnerabilities are dangerous to users

Tom Ferris, a security researcher at Mission Viejo, California, was the first to give information about seven security holes in Apple's operating system. Ferris said hackers could exploit dangerous vulnerabilities to run malicious code on the victim's computer.

Responding to information published by Ferris, Bud Tribble, Apple's vice president of software, said: ' We are working to fix these vulnerabilities .' He also did not forget to reassure the user: ' I think it is important that although there are potential risks, there are no exploits yet and no customers have been affected by the losses. This vulnerability '.

Five of the Ferris vulnerabilities indicate how to handle image files (including BMP, TIFF and GIF formats) of the operating system. Of the two remaining vulnerabilities, a vulnerability related to the operating system process solves compressed files in .zip format. The last vulnerability relates to Apple's Safari browser.

'The error related to image processing is the most serious. Hackers can exploit this error to control computers and execute malicious code that users can hardly detect , 'Ferris said.

Ferris added that Apple has silently patched one of the errors associated with processing TIFF image files in update 10.4.6. This is also the only error Apple has now handled.

Ferris was also the one who discovered and published information about some of the flaws in some other Apple products like iTunes and QuickTime. In addition, he is a security expert who discovered some pretty serious bugs in Firefox - the second most used browser, behind Microsoft's IE browser.

Update 12 December 2018