Linux Today: Linux News On Internet Time.
Search Linux Today
search.internet.com
Linux News Sections:  Blog -  Developer -  High Performance -  Infrastructure -  IT Management -  Security -  Storage -
Linux Today Navigation
LT Home
Preferences
Contribute
Link to Us
Search
Linux Jobs

Become a Marketplace Partner

internet.commerce
Be a Commerce Partner














The Linux Channel at internet.com
Linux Today
Enterprise Linux Today
Apache Today
JustLinux.com
Linux Planet
PHPBuilder
All Linux Devices
Technology Jobs

JustTechJobs.com

LinuxToday Newsletters
Subscribe News
Subscribe PR
Subscribe Security

internet.com
IT
Developer
Internet News
Small Business
Personal Technology

Search internet.com
Advertise
Corporate Info
Newsletters
Tech Jobs
E-mail Offers

 






Current Newswire:

Easy (and amazing) Debian for the N900

Insight into GNU/Linux boot process

Reviewed: OpenOffice.org 3.2

Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On CentOS 5.4

Open Source is Not a Democracy

Open Source Gets Political

Open source and the Morevna project

Android market going down the drain?

All Done With Ubuntu

Google Offers Migration Tool for Microsoft Exchange Data




Systems Engineer Sr - Solaris - Linux (TX)
Next Step Systems
US-TX-Houston

Justtechjobs.com Post A Job | Post A Resume
:Techworld: Big Bug Fix for Linux a Month in Coming
Techworld: Big Bug Fix for Linux a Month in Coming
Aug 3, 2004, 15 :15 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (5444 reads)

(Other stories by Matthew Broersma)

"Linux vendors are urging users to patch a serious bug in the graphical user interface of the popular Mplayer media player application, which could allow a remote attacker to execute malicious code on a Linux or Unix system.

"Gentoo Linux released an advisory on Monday, instructing users to upgrade to the latest version of Mplayer. However, developers have warned that more bugs of the same sort are likely to be uncovered in Mplayer's GUI and recommended administrators to switch the interface off..."

Complete Story

Related Stories:
Linux.com: Installing MPlayer(Jul 06, 2004)
Mandrake Linux Advisory: mplayer(Apr 06, 2004)


Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat  
  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
The story says "And you thought Microsof ...   Linux Applications != Linux   
hey
Aug 3, 2004, 15:34:15
 
where in this article does this say that ...   a bug fix for linux..?   
pete
Aug 3, 2004, 15:50:26
 
I didn't know Mplayer was in the Lin ...   Misleading title again   
esb
Aug 3, 2004, 15:50:47
 
"Big bug fix for Linux a month in coming ...   Somewhat alarmist.   
cheezwog
Aug 3, 2004, 16:01:04
 
Isn't this exploit limited to whatev ...   Yeah but...   
K12Linux
Aug 3, 2004, 16:15:19
 
Since when is a patch for a media player ...   Journalistic Scare Tactics   
Anonymous
Aug 3, 2004, 16:23:37
 
If the reporter (and I use the term _ver ...   Article is full of FUD   
J.P. Pasnak
Aug 3, 2004, 18:26:54
 
Not fond of the title really.  This isn& ...   Don't like the title   
kurtis
Aug 3, 2004, 19:01:09
 
I dont use mplayer. Do I have to patch a ...   mplayer ??   
ohm
Aug 4, 2004, 01:48:53
 
This is a bug fix for MPlayer, not Linux ...   Nope.   
NeoSadist
Aug 4, 2004, 05:17:13
 
A kernel bug would be fixed almost insta ...   Re: Don't like the title   
Charles Hixson
Aug 4, 2004, 14:00:32
 
  Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page  



Enter your comments below:

* Your Name:

* Your Email Address:

* Subject:

CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address]

* Comments:

Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content.

Fields marked with * are required!






..............................




All times are recorded in UTC.
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Powered by Linux, Apache and PHP


The Network for Technology Professionals

Search:

About Internet.com

Legal Notices, Licensing, Permissions, Privacy Policy.
Advertise | Newsletters | E-mail Offers