News: Beware of GTK+

[Dave Andruczyk]

the GTK+ people released a new release 2.4.10 on sept 18th, within 1 day of
that article...  Now wouldn't it be nice if MS released a patch/fix for their
(much more serious bugs) in IE/WinXP within that timeframe...  I guess if they
did,  there wouldn't be as much interest in linux and other OS's


--- green_man <green_man at bluefrog.biz> wrote:

> 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.
> [end quote]
> 
> Note he said "theoretically".
> The full story is here.
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1647317,00.asp
> 
> -- 
> The sole purpose of my life is, apparently, to test my sanity. 
> 
> Scott
> Netscape 7.0 Mail
> 
> 
> 


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Dave J. Andruczyk


		
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