Linux virus ??

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004, David Bandel wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:27:29 -0800, Bill Campbell
><linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004, Raymond Russell wrote:
>> >
>> >On Nov 8, 2004, at 12:38 PM, David Bandel wrote:
>> >
>> >>Folks,
>> >>
>> >>Just heard from a friend of mine that a Linux "virus" is out (note: I
>> >>have not checked the veracity of this report).
>> 
>> There was an article today in InfoWorld about another image library
>> vulnerability:
>> 
>>         http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/12/08/morelinuxbugs_1.html
>
>Looks like a 'make the M$ morons not feel alone' exploit article.
>
>What I want to know is how my non-privileged user (david) could cause
>a SYSTEM COMPROMISE by viewing a "specially crafted image"?  Or for
>that fact, by running any code when I DON'T HAVE SYSTEM PRIVILEGES! 
>When I do work in my system, it's in a cli where I wouldn't be viewing
>any images.

Even without doing system level damage, I imagine that Joe User wouldn't be
too happy if everything under their home directory disappeared (he most
likely doesn't have any backups either :-).

>Is everyone in M$ land as dumb as this idiot?

Or as my father would ask ``are you as stupid as you appear to be?''

Bill
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