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Security Bug Doesn't Discriminate

Posted by timothy on from the let's-see-where-it's-fixed-first dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Despite all the fuss about Microsoft's booth at LinuxWorld next week, a security bug doesn't seem to care about the difference between open- and closed-source systems. The bug, found in a code library included in several popular applications, affects Windows 2000, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Linux, reports eWeek's Dennis Fisher."

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  1. Re:wt? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No kidding. Maybe the submitter thought that just having one link wasn't l33t enough. So he/she picked one obviously at random (since it has absolutely nothing to do with anything) and used it as a segue to the story. If I could figure out what the opposite of ingenious is, I'd use it here.