On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:48, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
Freitag, 8. Februar 2008 Randall R Schulz:
That is manifestly false. It takes an explicit vulnerability for this to happen. The classic one is unchecked overflow of a buffer
Any given nasty application would need 1 system call to remove your homedir. Call that "unfair" or "vulnerability", whatever.
You cannot be serious about this! Are you? A program is what it is, not a general-purpose execution agent for whomever launches it.
How you would run into such a nasty app is another story. But isn't saying that you couldn't a bit over-optimistic?
We're talking about _specific_ applications. Firefox, Thunderbird, KMail, not some nebulous, ominous, evil, random bit of executable code supplied by Dr. Evil and willingly executed by J. Random Naive User. Get real!
Wolfgang
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