Why Customers Should Care About This Vulnerability CrowdStrike moved quickly to identify the potential risk associated with the successful exploitation of this vulnerability by providing its Mac user community with an easy way for them to gain instant visibility into vulnerable macOS hosts in their environments. First reported by Kevin Backhouse, the vulnerability was fixed by Apple in their October security patches. The vulnerability was first discovered in August, but disclosed publicly on Octowhen Apple released security updates for the affected operating systems. The XNU OS is used in macOS as well as iOS, so this vulnerability impacts all types of Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, etc.
The recent discovery of the Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability CVE-2018-4407 in Apple’s XNU operating system kernel may have been a cause for concern among organizations using Macs but CrowdStrike® is helping customers identify vulnerable Macs in their environments with a new dashboard.
Image above is a screenshot of the CrowdStrike CVE-2018-4407 dashboard for macOS ( click for larger image)
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