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Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver

A reported security vulnerability for the NTFS3 driver has gone unaddressed since being reported earlier this summer. The vulnerability allows a pre-crafted NTFS image on a USB flash drive or similar to allow the user to gain root access to the running Linux system...

We haven't written up this one. Phoronix has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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Four things SVG and CSS did that I did not expect

I spent a while building an icon editor that runs entirely in the browser (icons.jamuny.com, free, no account). Here is what cost me the most time.

  • Presentation attributes overridden by CSS rules in cascade
  • Geometry attributes lack CSS counterparts, unaffected by cascading
  • getComputedStyle() retrieves presentation attribute values

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