Code Flaws Open Linux Apps to Attack Publication: E Week Date: Sep 18 2004 Reporter: Daniel Drew Turner 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. Read comments Read full article Read full article in new window See other articles by Daniel Drew Turner See other articles published by E Week Today's headlines Headlines for Sep 18, 2004   Comments Subject Posted by Date over the years CMonster3 18 Sep, 22:56 [ all comments ]
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