Re: Linux - Poster child for security glitches

From: Peter Köhlmann (Peter.Koehlmann@t-online.de)
Date: 11/25/02 

From: Peter Köhlmann <Peter.Koehlmann@t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:44:13 +0100

Kasper Dupont wrote:

> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>
>> nospam <ononono@nospam.com> wrote:
>> >> In article <3ddf5623.120319830@news1.attglobal.net>, Subba Rao
>> >> wrote: And we're *always* hearing about e-mail trojan horses running
>> >> amok because the e-mail client will run the trojan horse simply by
>> >> having the preview pane of the e-mail client open.
>> > Interesting!!!
>> > And which email client would that be?
>>
>> It's not as if Windows is alone in that problem. For instance,
>> Fetchmail, prior to the recent patch, will execute arbitrary code
>> simply by *RECEIVING*
>> an email. You don't even have to open or preview it.
>
> KMail has also done a good job in becoming vulnurable.
> Here is a story about KMail starting Wine just so it
> could execute the klez virus:
>
> http://articles.linuxguru.net/view/198
>
> The article incorrectly makes this sound like a Wine
> problem, obviously it is a KMail problem.
>

It is also incorrect about certain Wine setup stuff.
I am not at all sure if it is not just a hoax

And what site is this running on? It is slow as hell, with ping times of
about 140ms.

Peter 

-- 
I doubt, therefore I might be.

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