Microsoft has shipped the first critical security update for Windows Vista, the next version of its flagship operating system. Over the weekend, the company released patches for beta testers running the Windows Vista December CTP and Windows Vista Beta 1, and warned that the new operating system was vulnerable to a remote code execution flaw in the Graphics Rendering Engine.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Hey hey, how long after the full release of the next Ubuntu/FC/Mandrake/OS X until a huge security hole is discovered?!
Here's a friggin' clue: No OS is perfect, and they all have holes. Screaming bloody murder about one camp, while ignoring the fact that your camp can be just as insecure, is idiocy.
Member since:2005-07-08
As far as Fedora goes, while there's no doubt something will turn up, given the wonderful things Red Hat has done with selinux it would be quite far from a huge security hole. An OpenSSH hole is about the only thing I can think of at this point that could potentially do major damage to your Fedora system. Good luck finding a hole in that app.
Edited 2006-01-17 01:08
Member since:2005-08-07
Here's a friggin' clue: No OS is perfect, and they all have holes. Screaming bloody murder about one camp, while ignoring the fact that your camp can be just as insecure, is idiocy. --Linux Is Poo
Agreed. That said at least with Linux I don't have to worry as much about some backdoor built in to the system suddenly being exposed! Nor do I need to wait while the Soft sits on its ass hoping it can wait until Patch Tuesday to release a fix they had within hours of the backdoor's exposure. Nor do I have to worry that a background image as part of a website's border will be used as a way to take over my system without a single click or command from me.
Also before you attempt to make comments about the huge lists of patched vulnerabilities over on Secunia bear in mind that these lists are so huge because they include as part of the distro all the distro's applications. I'd love to see an honest comaprision done with Windows and various installed applications and see what the results would look like.
In any case I think you should really follow your own advice and remember that people who live in glass hoeses shouldn't throw stones.
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2005-11-15
Place your bets! How long after the full release of Vista until a security hole so HUGE is discovered MS will have to install the fix and reboot your PC without you even knowing!
Sorry, sir, holes found before the release don't count.
Sigh. Depressing isn't it? Maybe this will point them to increased security over intergrating all the "cool" features they can find, let's hope so anyway.