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by sjy 4288 days ago
Have you got a source for OS X DHCP being vulnerable? OS X has a copy of bash at /bin/sh so it's pretty vulnerable if you can find a way to remotely set environment variables and call system().
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It was in the article linked. at the bottom it mentioned them
Unless the article was changed, the author only questioned whether they were vulnerable, and did not assert that they were: "One key question is whether Mac OS X and iPhone DHCP service is vulnerable..."

One early analysis [0] seems to indicate that OS X not vulnerable to this sort of DHCP client exploit.

0. http://complexitydaemon.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/bash-os-x-d...