[OfB Talk] The amount of damage is too great for words

[Derek Broughton]

On September 28, 2004 01:24 am, Steven Hatfield wrote:
>
> The bug in a nutshell:  JPEG buffer overflow exploit allows remote
> execution of arbitrary code:
> http://asia.cnet.com/news/security/0,39037064,39193726,00.htm
>
> Now it is as easy as posting a message to usenet to infect and control
> someone else's machine:
> http://www.easynews.com/virus.txt
>
> While Microsoft's tech specs say that this only affects WinXP systems
> or computers with Office XP/2003, if you look carefully at this URL...
...
>
> BUT there is an upside!  This is a GOLDEN opportunity for anyone in the
> alternate OS business to step forward and do some marketing.  "Come to
> us! We won't leave you hanging in the wind!".  Oh, this could be GOOOD!
>   Now if only someone at Red Hat, Novell or other distributions will
> only step up and start working some marketing mojo!

Except that this bug affected linux platforms too.  Of course, we got a fixed 
libjpeg faster...