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I immediately thought of the htop bug and then she references that in the article. How is this not fixed yet? Like, this is a security bug, right? You can DoS from a simple usermode app with this bug.

Nothing official from Apple on this yet?

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I don’t think the attack vector (presumably asking for admin credentials to install a startup item) would be any different than an app that wanted to fork bomb, allocate too much memory, or spin wait on all cores. In that way I don’t think it’s any more security critical than any other bug that hangs the system.

It’s definitely something that should be fixed of course.

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