Re: Old security problems and new solutions

From: Ish Sookun <ish_at_hacklog.in>
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 07:36:45 +0400

Thank you for the good work[1] Logan :-)

As Logan specified xz is a widely used compression utility which might
be exploited. Capsicum chips in to help containing the execution of code
during compression/decompression in a "controlled" environment; thus not
affecting the rest of the OS.

[1]
http://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commit;h=1238381143a9a7ce84839c2582ccd56ff750a440

Regards,

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Received on Wed Apr 01 2015 - 03:37:11 PST