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I've been reading the new jpg exploit and wondering what I can do to protect my system. Even if my machine would be affected, my guess is that its a windows only virus? so I could in theory have in infection and not know it, and thus it could transfer to the windows boxes on the netwrok via samba shares. So what can i do to protect my system from getting infected with virus, both windows and linux viruses?
and just my 2 cents, if they would stop posting these exploits there wouldnt be as many viruses to exploit them!!
Security through obscurity does _not_ work. If people stopped posting exploits, only a smaller crowd would have them, true (mabye), but the damage would be bad, quite easily worse, for the simple fact that if the vendor doesnt know about it, they cant fix it.
Originally posted by RandomLinuxNewb I read that libjpg was updated recently for some buffer overflows so it's not just windows. Buffer Overflows are found in ALL code not just windows.
you are confused with the libpng issue we had a while back... that one did affect libpng-using applications on any operating system...
but this current exploit affects only windows products... it's a bug in microsoft's Graphic Device Interface (GDI)...
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This is --not-- the fault of the JPEG standard, and the JPEG committee has --no-- responsibility for either the problem or its suggested solutions. In view of the serious nature of this problem however, we recommend that all users of Microsoft products read the above notices and take appropriate action.
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