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Submission + - Possible data loss in Ext4 (h-online.com)

Submitted by

cooper

on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @09:37AM

cooper writes: "Heise open posted a news about a bug report for the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) which describes a massive data loss problem when using Ext4: A crash occurring shortly after the KDE 4 desktop files had been loaded results in the loss of all of the data that had been created, including many KDE configuration files. (German version)"

Submission + - Unofficial URI-patch for Windows (heise-security.co.uk)

Submitted by dg2fer on Thursday October 18, 2007 @05:12AM

dg2fer writes: For more than two month, the vulnerability of parsing URIs is known for several Windows programms, including Outlook, Adobe Reader, IRC clients and many more.

The latest Microsoft patches published for October did not include a solution for the URI problem, so according to an article on heise security hackers started to solve the problem theirselfes and published an unofficial patch which cleans up the critical parameters of URI system calls before calling the vulnerable Windows system function.

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