News: Beware of GTK+

green_man green_man at bluefrog.biz
Sun Sep 19 21:26:09 EDT 2004


eWeek News Story:

[qoute]
Security
Code Flaws Open Linux Apps to Attack 
By Daniel Drew Turner
September 17, 2004


Vulnerabilities in code libraries that could potentially affect 
open-source programs using the GUI toolkit GTK+ were reported on the 
security Web site Secunia on Thursday. As initially discovered by Chris 
Evans, these problems could theoretically be exploited to spark a DDoS 
(distributed denial of service) attack and otherwise compromise a 
computer system.
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Note he said "theoretically".
The full story is here.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1647317,00.asp

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Scott
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