[lugm.org] Old security problems and new solutions

[Ajay R Ramjatan]

Your move is still a good one. See, because the source code to this whole
thing is available and usable, Logan was able to contribute to it and make
the program better.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Beach Samurai <beach.samurai at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Are linux users prone to such attacks?
> I moved from windows to ubuntu because i thought linux was impervious to
> such attacks unless something got installed on the kernel....
> On Apr 1, 2015 7:38 AM, "Ish Sookun" <ish at hacklog.in> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the good work[1] Logan :-)
>>
>> As Logan specified xz is a widely used compression utility which might be
>> exploited. Capsicum chips in to help containing the execution of code
>> during compression/decompression in a "controlled" environment; thus not
>> affecting the rest of the OS.
>>
>> [1] http://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commit;h=
>> 1238381143a9a7ce84839c2582ccd56ff750a440
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> ​Ish Sookun
>>
>> - Geek by birth, Linux by choice.
>> - I blog at HACKLOG.in.
>>
>> https://twitter.com/IshSookun ^^ Do you tweet?
>>
>>
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