Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Dangerous Linux Denial of Service Vulnerability Disclosed as 0-Day

Greyhat hackers from Goatse Security have published the details of a dangerous denial of service (DoS) vulnerability affecting many Linux distributions.

The flaw can be exploited by tricking users into opening an overly-long, specially-crafted apt:// URL in a browser that supports the protocol.

"This bug is delightfully trivial to deploy. Just write a normal HTML page containing an

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