Before his coffee was cold he had found a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X Tiger, which could allow people to elevate from normal user to full super user, and had written code that could exploit the hole.
"I just think that I got lucky, but that's what I always think when I find a bug that quickly," he said in an interview on Wednesday.

Dai Zovi has been exploiting Macs for a long time, publishing his first Mac OS X shellcode (code used as the payload in an exploitation of a vulnerability) for the PowerPC in July 2001. He said he has reported more than 10 vulnerabilities to Apple over the years and does so out of love for the platform.

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