Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes
On 2009-02-15_17:26:23, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:48:37 Ron Johnson wrote:
> > [W]hat's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this?
> >
> > $ sudo dpkg -i NakedBrittany.deb
>
> What's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this?
> sudo rm -rf The Great American Novell / Movie
Joe Wannabe needs to learn more in order to do him self real harm.
Shouldn't it be:
sudo rm -rf "The Great American Novell"
? ;-)
And, without testing it, I'm pretty sure that
sudo rm -rf /
is trapped and subject to special handling. At least, it should be,
IMHO.
>
> Neither is an actual security issue.
>
> > and the
> > other thru a poorly-working (official) Debian patch to ssh. (Or was
> > it SSL?)
>
> I don't recall this actually causing the Debian servers to be compromised.
I also think don't recall a compromise.
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