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Dave Andruczyk wrote, On 09/20/04 9:46 AM:<br>
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<pre wrap="">the GTK+ people released a new release 2.4.10 on sept 18th, within 1 day of
that article... Now wouldn't it be nice if MS released a patch/fix for their
(much more serious bugs) in IE/WinXP within that timeframe... I guess if they
did, there wouldn't be as much interest in linux and other OS's
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On that page, click on the Linux and Open Source link. <br>
Some where from there is an article about the futility of SP2 for Win XP.
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SP2 plugs some holes they knew about before XP was even released. :-) <br>
There's also some good Opinion pieces about WrongHorn if you hunt around.
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--- green_man <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:green_man@bluefrog.biz"><green_man@bluefrog.biz></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">eWeek News Story:
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Security
Code Flaws Open Linux Apps to Attack
By Daniel Drew Turner
September 17, 2004
Vulnerabilities in code libraries that could potentially affect
open-source programs using the GUI toolkit GTK+ were reported on the
security Web site Secunia on Thursday. As initially discovered by Chris
Evans, these problems could theoretically be exploited to spark a DDoS
(distributed denial of service) attack and otherwise compromise a
computer system.
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Note he said "theoretically".
The full story is here.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1647317,00.asp">http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1647317,00.asp</a>
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Scott
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The sole purpose of my life is, apparently, to test my sanity.
Scott
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