S. Schauenburg wrote:
I guess it's true, if you actually read the article correctly. But remember WHO is vulnerable for this? For this to be exploited, I guess someone must put a WMF picture on a site (and you would be using IE) with some real Wine specific code. The problem here is, why would you use IE if you have Firefox running native? So I guess the 'threat' is actually very minimal. The extent of the damage done by a Wine specific WMF exploit.... I don't know, but I guess only your .wine dir would be affected (I'd like some confirmation about that). Regards,
*If* the wmf exploit could trick wine to do something unwanted to the system, it could "only" effect files you are enabled to write to; also it might run a program that'd continue to do whatever (spread the virus or so?) untill you killed it, (maybe through system shutdown) then, it would not start again, untill you would do a manual 'wineboot' execution (or untill you explicitly started the virus yourself); this will not happen at the moment that you boot the computer or login to your user -- you have to call that command explicitly
That is ofcourse, assuming there is some exploit for wine specifically -- a real windows exploit is not very likely to be able to do such (because of implementational difference, memory differences, etc)
HTH, Joris _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
