Are linux users prone to such attacks?
I moved from windows to ubuntu because i thought linux was impervious to
such attacks unless something got installed on the kernel....
On Apr 1, 2015 7:38 AM, "Ish Sookun" <ish_at_hacklog.in> wrote:
> 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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> ​Ish Sookun
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Received on Wed Apr 01 2015 - 04:06:51 PST