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Huh?
Posted by jdodson in free software, tech on January 7, 2010
Recent security update email from Ubuntu had me wondering.
“Stefan Cornelius discovered that GIMP did not correctly handle certain
malformed PSD files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted PSD file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user’s
privileges. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10.
(CVE-2009-3909)
Updated packages for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
Source archives:…”
OK so Ubuntu 8.04 didn’t have the problem but you updated the 8.04 package anyway? What’s the point of that? If I were Ubuntu I would error on the side of not updating a package that doesn’t need to be. Reason? Not screwing up something is easier if you don’t mess with it. Plus a zillion people update Ubuntu’s LTS, save the bandwidth.
meme
Posted by jdodson in offhandstrangity on September 26, 2008
right here, right now.
- Take a picture of yourself right now.
- Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
- Post that picture with NO editing.
- Post these instructions with your picture.