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Re: GIF for KDE



Rick Jones:
> 
> Yes.  I saw the posting to the kde list by Alan Cox, I believe it was.  I
> wonder if you, or another Debianite, could tell me just how easy it would
> be to attach to a tcp port and send/recv commands to take advantage of
> that security hole?  I know a programmer would have no trouble exploiting
> this.  What about the common Joe?

All it takes is one cracker who writes an exploit script for it. I have no
idea how easy it is to do, though Alan gave the impression it was trival..

-- 
See shy Jo.


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