Hello folks,
Since this thread drifts away from being "Internet in Mauritius" and might
involve more discussions about Linux and FOSS, I suggest we limit the
traffic to the LUGM[1] mailing list.
[1]
http://discuss.lugm.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_discuss.lugm.org
Cheers,
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 - 05:07:49 PST