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If an evil app is already communicating on the web and is already on your computer, what can it gain more?
by hartator 8y ago
If an evil app is already communicating on the web and is already on your computer, what can it gain more?
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoWireshark (usually) runs in promiscuous mode; it'd be "an evil app is already able to send something visible from your network interface" - which to be fair, might help for internal uses. It does usually mean that anything on your local network can attack you.
- crummy 8y agoBecause the "evil app" is just a specially crafted JPG that your browser opened up that triggers some edge case in the old unpatched version of Wireshark that is inspecting traffic.