One tiny, ugly bug. existed for fifteen years. Full system compromise - Happy New Year Mac Lovers

On the first day of 2018, a researcher using the online moniker Siguza released the details of the unpatched zero-day macOS vulnerability, which he suggests is at least 15 years old

The bug is a serious local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability that could enable an unprivileged user (attacker) to gain root access on the targeted system and execute malicious code. Malware designed to exploit this flaw could fully install itself deep within the system.


For More:
https://thehackernews.com/2018/01/macos-kernel-exploit.html