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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:52:05 +0200
From: Hunger <hunger@...ger.hu>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, kseifried@...hat.com
Cc: nix-devel@...glegroups.com, Graham Christensen <graham@...hamc.com>, 
	Franz Pletz <fpletz@...rdicwalking.de>, Domen Kožar <domen@....si>, 
	Rob Vermaas <rob.vermaas@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Privilege escalation with kill(-1, SIGKILL) in XNU
 kernel of macOS High Sierra

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 4:00 AM, Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com> wrote:

> So I normally wouldn't accept this posting (and no doubt Solar will be
> annoyed because this isn't Open Source per se, and he's 100% right) but
> this posting does provide a good teachable moment.
>


And here's the teachable moment for you...


The XNU kernel is Open Source:

https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-4570.1.46/

The Apple Public Source License 2.0 approved by the OSI:

https://opensource.org/licenses/APSL-2.0

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