0-days hitting Fedora and Ubuntu open desktops to a world of hurt

Posted by bob on Dec 18, 2016 2:41 AM CST
Ars Technica; By Dan Goodin
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If you run a mainstream distribution of Linux on a desktop computer, there's a good chance security researcher Chris Evans can hijack it when you do nothing more than open or even browse a specially crafted music file. And in the event you're running Chrome on the just-released Fedora 25, his code-execution attack works as a classic drive-by.

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