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Flaw Leaves Linux Computers Vulnerable | |
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| Time: 13:24 EST/18:24 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Julien Jay | ||
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A flaw in a software-compression library used in all versions of Linux could leave the lion's share of systems based on the open-source operating system open to attack, said sources in the security community on Monday. Several other operating systems that use open-source components are vulnerable too varying degrees as well. The software bug--known as a double-free vulnerability--causes key memory-management functions in the zlib compression library to fail, a condition that could allow a smart attacker to compromise computers over the Internet, said Dave Wreski, director for open-source security company Guardian Digital. The flaw, discovered by Linux user Matthias Clasen and Owen Taylor, an engineer at Linux-software company Red Hat, affects any Linux program that uses the zlib library for decompression, including the core software of the operating system, the kernel. | ||
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| #1 By 2332 (129.21.145.80) at 3/12/2002 3:45:31 PM |
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#10 - Windows isn't vulnerable to this flaw. In addition, none of those are Windows dlls.
I think the point everybody else was making is that zlib is open source, yet this bug was never caught. They are just having fun pointing out the hipocracy. |
| #2 By 1913 (68.14.48.57) at 3/12/2002 9:04:30 PM |
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#10 I agree ...No technology is foolproof or infallable.
Linux is now walking the same path that Microsoft is walking ...the more the program evolves the more vulnerability and flaws will appear. It just happens. Live with it. |
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