0-days hitting Fedora and Ubuntu open desktops to a world of hurt 12-17-2016, 04:13 AM
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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..."
"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..."
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