Hello Anooj,
You write a "program" to do a task on Windows. It does.
Then you write the same logic to do similar task on Linux. It will still do
it.
When people say Linux isn't vulnerable to virus that spread across Windows
platforms, it's because those virus (think of them as programs) were
designed & compiled for the Windows platform. Thus, you can't execute them
on Linux and we say Linux isn't vulnerable to Windows-type virus.
"something got installed in the kernel" is too vague. Besides you don't
really install something in the Linux kernel. You load or unload modules or
you compile the kernel with, to make the "something" part of the kernel.
Regards,
Ish Sookun
- Geek by birth, Linux by choice.
- I blog at HACKLOG.in.
https://twitter.com/IshSookun ^^ Do you tweet?
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Beach Samurai <beach.samurai_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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,
>>
>> --
>> Ish Sookun
>>
>> - Geek by birth, Linux by choice.
>> - I blog at HACKLOG.in.
>>
>> https://twitter.com/IshSookun ^^ Do you tweet?
>>
>>
Received on Wed Apr 01 2015 - 05:04:00 PST