back to article Microsoft reports macOS Gatekeeper has an 'Achilles' heel

Security researchers at Microsoft have discovered a bug in macOS that lets malicious apps bypass Apple's Gatekeeper security software "for initial access by malware and other threats."  Dubbed "Achilles," (which sounds sexier than CVE-2022-42821) Microsoft researchers said the vulnerability was discovered in late July, and …

  1. Will Godfrey Silver badge
    Unhappy

    I detect a trend here

    Microsoft seems very cough public spirited cough in pointing out everyone else's bugs.

    1. IGotOut Silver badge

      Re: I detect a trend here

      Just like Google and Apple?

      1. jake Silver badge

        Re: I detect a trend here

        And everybody else.

        Good thing. NO company wants to announce their own bugs. This way, we (us GreatUnwashed) get to see things that might otherwise be swept under the rug.

    2. Charlie Clark Silver badge

      Re: I detect a trend here

      They're a bit late to the game.

  2. milliemoo83

    Insert your Trojan joke here

    Well if we built this giant wooden badger....

    1. jake Silver badge

      Re: Insert your Trojan joke here

      We don' need no steenkin' badgers!

      1. milliemoo83

        Re: Insert your Trojan joke here

        Just shut up and go and change your armour!

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    My word, what a conveniently timed release..

    .. given that their own bugs nuked customer machines.

    It appears Redmond is desperately in need of some distraction?

    BTW, I did check, the specific CVE appears to have been addressed a week ago (13 December).

    1. jake Silver badge

      Re: My word, what a conveniently timed release..

      "the specific CVE appears to have been addressed"

      Yes. That's why it's being announced now, not earlier. There is indeed a fix. Have you applied it yet? Did you even know it was available? Good thing Microsoft put it in the spotlight, no? ... Apple sure as hell wasn't going to announce it to all and sundry!

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: My word, what a conveniently timed release..

        No, Apple simply made the update available a week ago.

        As they're rare and are generally working quite well it was simple to install (I had one fail once, which is not bad going given that I've only been using OSX/MacOS since 2005 or so) - which, of course, you can do at a time of your choosing and which is also not likely to mess up anything else.

  4. aerogems Silver badge
    Joke

    Achilles

    The original Trojan Man!

    1. tiggity Silver badge

      Re: Achilles

      Though * involved in the Trojan war, he was not from Troy, unlike Paris.

      * mythically, obv

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