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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: X11 exploit info
From:       Thomas Baumgart <ipwizard () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2006-02-12 14:19:20
Message-ID: 200602121519.30394 () net-bembel ! de
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Hi all,

on Sunday 12 February 2006 14:48, Dave Feustel wrote:

> On Sunday 12 February 2006 08:08, Christian Mueller wrote:

[...]

> > The articles you linked to are not exploits.
>
> The articles describe the exploits.

Definition found on 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploit_%28computer_security%29

"An exploit is a common term in the computer security community to refer to 
a piece of software that takes advantage of a bug, glitch or 
vulnerability, leading to privilege escalation or denial of service on a 
computer system."

Since the articles don't describe a "piece of software that takes advantage 
of a bug, glitch or vulnerability" but the vulnerable part itself and what 
can be done with it, they do *not* describe an exploit.

BTW: This whole discussion took up a lot of bandwidth on this list even 
though it is OT.

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Thomas Baumgart

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