[X-Unix] Question about the latest security updates

luke etyrnal at ameritech.net
Tue Jun 8 13:14:51 PDT 2004


On Monday, June 7, 2004, at 05:23  PM, RP McKay wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> From reading about the security hole with the help viewer recently

tried as i could i was NOT able to get that 'security hole' to work...

i think the security 'hole' was not dangerous like everyone claimed...

did YOU try to exploit it?

i could not make it do one single useful thing...

and i could not get it to wreak any havoc whatsoever.

what permissions does Help Viewer normally have anyway?

What about IE or Safari?



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