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lol this is totally wrong. One browser exploit coupled with one kernel exploit, as per standard, still takes over the whole machine. Does this make the kernel s
by dguido 10y ago
lol this is totally wrong. One browser exploit coupled with one kernel exploit, as per standard, still takes over the whole machine. Does this make the kernel step any harder?
What attacks are they even mitigating?
- feld 10y agoThe recent attacks where your dotfiles and dotdirs are stolen so they get your ssh keys and more
- contras1970 10y ago> lol this is totally wrong. One browser exploit coupled with one kernel exploit [...] You seem to contradict yourself there. > What attacks are they even mitigating? The page is based on this email to users@dragonflybsd.org Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:32:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: users@dragonflybsd.org Subject: Running firefox a bit more safely - HOWTO As people may know a firefox hack was found in the wild that allows any accessible file to be read. This hack was due to a bug in firefox's internal PDF viewer. The exploit that was found in the wild was trying to snarf developer-related files such as .ssh configuration files and keys. [...]