Re: [linux-audio-user] O.T. Midi is more dangerous than you think!!

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] O.T. Midi is more dangerous than you think!!
From: Anahata (anahata_AT_treewind.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 19:14:36 EEST

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:27:32PM +0200, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
> After all, a BO in directX is not such a
> big surprise. Almost everything else can get windows in trouble so why should
> directx be an exception?

To be fair, buffer overflow exploits can happen just as easily in Linux
or any other OS. This isn't an area where Linux is inherently more
secure than Windows, except that in *n*x the scope for damage is more
limited if the compromised program in question runs as an unpriviliged
user. 

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