On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 11:22:42PM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote: > It's probably possible for something to overflow an X packet or something > in the middle and obtain root by opening a new shell and issuing > commands, or maybe it's even possible for X clients to fake keystrokes to > other windows, but most of the stuff I run is text-only anyway.
A program could connect to your X server even if it looks like a text-only program. Unless you ldd every new binary before you run it, it could even be linked to X libraries. (It would probably bulk up the binary a lot (i.e. noticeably) to statically link in enough X library stuff to send keystrokes to other windows, etc.) Still, that's not the sort of thing a virus would usually do. It's more along the lines of what someone attacking you, personally, might try. (esp. after reading your message... :] -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , s.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC
