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michael
on from the sauce-for-the-gander dept.
SirTimbly writes: "CNET is reporting that there is a buffer overflow problem with zlib in linux, which is used for network compression. Supposedly, someone could remotely cause a buffer overflow through mozilla, X11 and many other programs." The advisory from Red Hat is available.
TOO LATE
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Http://www.genxius.com posted this story over an hour ago !
Re:TOO LATE
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Anonymous Coward
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Offtopic ? Slashdot is F\/cking off topic.
wonderful
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Anonymous Coward
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Now, AOL is going to say "why Mozilla, no better than IE"
yes, this is a linux issue, and AOL is a not a program that runs on linux.
that is what makes FUD, well, FUD.
WTF? Random ads on /. now?
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Anonymous Coward
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Got this really random ad right in the middle of the page. Only showed up once on this page. Went to other pages and didn't see anything. Came back to this page and it was gone....??
The only things running on my boxen are:
Apache (no gzip) and proftpd.
I think I'm alright.
-- I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
Programming languages: fool me once ...
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Anonymous Coward
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Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Isn't there are pattern here? All
Open Source software gurus are not
fools. Yet why in the name of all that is good do they not
realize that C is an inherently unsafe language.
There are some really good free alternatives
to C, so why the heck are those numbskulls not
using them? I can not figure out why in the
face of so much evidence, that there is no
broad move to root out the problem once and
for all. Take your choice: Eiffel, Ada, Modula-3, to mention a few, are all modern languages which
are immune to these sorts of problems by default.
When are people going to wake up and smell the coffee? Better tools for better living.
Selective, are we?
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Renraku
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my boffer overflowed on the toilet this morning.
Http://www.genxius.com posted this story over an hour ago !
Now, AOL is going to say "why Mozilla, no better than IE"
yes, this is a linux issue, and AOL is a not a program that runs on linux.
that is what makes FUD, well, FUD.
Got this really random ad right in the middle of the page. Only showed up once on this page. Went to other pages and didn't see anything. Came back to this page and it was gone....??
Screenshot
The only things running on my boxen are:
Apache (no gzip) and proftpd.
I think I'm alright.
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Isn't there are pattern here? All Open Source software gurus are not fools. Yet why in the name of all that is good do they not realize that C is an inherently unsafe language. There are some really good free alternatives to C, so why the heck are those numbskulls not using them? I can not figure out why in the face of so much evidence, that there is no broad move to root out the problem once and for all. Take your choice: Eiffel, Ada, Modula-3, to mention a few, are all modern languages which are immune to these sorts of problems by default. When are people going to wake up and smell the coffee? Better tools for better living.
2002-1-23 21:23:51 zLib Buffer Overflows(articles,news) (rejected)
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Oh those large ad's are so annyoing! Can I please pay so I don't have to look at them! ;)