the misadventures of weather boy

The French are worried....

The FrSIRT has raised their threat level (see sidebar) on the basis of two vulnerabilities: a sendmail vulnerability as well as an unpatched Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerability. Both vulnerabilities would allow a remote user to take root control of the system, and both have public exploits. I'm not really sure which one is more important--sendmail can be patched, but everyone and his mother uses it, so there are bound to be some unpatched systems. On the flip side, the IE vulnerability does not have a patch yet, and most people aren't going to think to disable ActiveX.

Labels: computing

posted by weather boy @ 11:03 PM