[roger_smith]

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/12/...w-a-thing/

"If you run a mainstream distribution of Linux on a desktop computer, there's a good chance security researcher Chris Evans can hijack it when you do nothing more than open or even browse a specially crafted music file. And in the event you're running Chrome on the just-released Fedora 25, his code-execution attack works as a classic drive-by.
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...The two audio files are encoded in the SPC music format used in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System console from the 1990s..."

[Inori]

Arbitrary code execution using SNES-era audio encoding, I'm certainly impressed.

[mothered]

The Linux distro Is the last platform I thought would get hit with a 0-day.

I shall read further Into this.
Appreciate the news, thanks.

[Bish0pQ]

Very interesting, as @mothered said pretty surprised it was found and the way how the 0-day works. Thanks for the article, it was an interesting read for sure.

[Esoterith]

Thanks. I did not know. I need to get back into linux. Im currently using windows because of school.