0-days hitting Fedora and Ubuntu open desktops to a world of hurt

'If you run a mainstream distribution of Linux on a desktop computer, there's a good chance security researcher Chris Evans can hijack it when you do nothing more than open or even browse a specially crafted music file. And in the event you're running Chrome on the just-released Fedora 25, his code-execution attack works as a classic drive-by.' -- source: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/12/fedora-and-ubuntu-0days-show-that-ha... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

On 12/16/2016 10:45 AM, Peter Reutemann wrote:
'If you run a mainstream distribution of Linux on a desktop computer, there's a good chance security researcher Chris Evans can hijack it when you do nothing more than open or even browse a specially crafted music file. And in the event you're running Chrome on the just-released Fedora 25, his code-execution attack works as a classic drive-by.'
-- source: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/12/fedora-and-ubuntu-0days-show-that-ha...
Cheers, Peter Tested on my system. No effect whatsoever.
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