GStreamer and the state of Linux desktop security
GStreamer and the state of Linux desktop security
[Development] Posted Dec 7, 2016 20:26 UTC (Wed) by hannob
Recently Chris Evans, an IT security expert currently working for Tesla, published a series of blog posts about security vulnerabilities in the GStreamer multimedia framework. A combination of the Chrome browser and GNOME-based desktops creates a particularly scary vulnerability. Evans also made a provocative statement: that vulnerabilities of this severity currently wouldn't happen in Windows 10. Is the state of security on the Linux desktop really that bad — and what can be done about it?
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