New OS X Yosemite bug posses a security vulnerability


Dan Goodin for Ars Technica:

When combined with a zero-day exploit targeting Adobe's Flash media player, Hacking Team was able to pierce security protections built into Google Chrome, widely regarded as the Internet's most secure browser by default.

According to Esser, the OS X privilege-escalation flaw stems from new error-logging features that Apple added to OS X 10.10.

Goodin reports that the exploit appears to not work in the most recent version of OS X 10.11, so it appears that the situation is at leave being addressed.