[Gllug] p2p programs

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Sun Nov 13 16:35:24 UTC 2005


Henry Gilbert wrote:
> And you can't find me one security-horror-story  from a Linux Desktop user
> (again not servers, even phpBulletin was exploited)

Presumably your "Linux Desktop" has a web browser installed.  Presumably 
  that browser has PNG support.

Here's a real world example of when that combination meant that your 
"Linux Desktop" was expoitable:

http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/08112004.libpng.c.php


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