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Re: [SLE] Re: SUSE Firewall primitive shadow of ZoneAlarm in interactive user-control
- From: Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:51:20 -0500
- Message-id: <200603311551.21172.gaf@xxxxxxx>
On Friday 31 March 2006 3:31 pm, Roger Haxton wrote:
> Look up shatter attacks on Windows. These are very dangerous attacks
> that cannot be fixed without Microsoft completely re-writing how Windows
> uses messages between applications. From what my hacker/security
> engineer friend tells me, this sounds exactly like what Andre was
> describing.
As a reference, there was a pretty good discussion of Windows security flaws
and Crossover Office and if some of these vulnerabilities could affect
Linux if we run IE, Outlook, et. al.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
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> Look up shatter attacks on Windows. These are very dangerous attacks
> that cannot be fixed without Microsoft completely re-writing how Windows
> uses messages between applications. From what my hacker/security
> engineer friend tells me, this sounds exactly like what Andre was
> describing.
As a reference, there was a pretty good discussion of Windows security flaws
and Crossover Office and if some of these vulnerabilities could affect
Linux if we run IE, Outlook, et. al.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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