Leopard fixes released; firewall Digital Signature issue not addressed
Leopard’s tendency to modify applications with digital signatures that can cause headaches in VoIP software Skype and online game World of Warcraft hit headlines earlier this month; Apple have just released software patches in an attempt to deal with their latest OS’ errant firewall, but although the holes they fix are potentially serious as yet there doesn’t appear to be anything addressing this particular incompatibility.
Instead, Apple has had to rephrase their firewall description, which originally boasted that Leopard could “block all incoming connections”; in the process, they had to admit that they had perhaps been misleading:
“The ‘Block all incoming connections’ setting for the Application Firewall allows any process running as user “root†(UID 0) to receive incoming connections, and also allows mDNSResponder to receive connections. This could result in the unexpected exposure of network services” Apple
Written by Chris Davies on November 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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