{"id":4230,"date":"2017-07-24T00:28:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T00:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islascruz.org\/blog\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2017-07-24T00:28:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T00:28:22","slug":"linux-file-manager-security-exploit-leaves-bad-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islascruz.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/24\/linux-file-manager-security-exploit-leaves-bad-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux file manager security exploit leaves a &#8220;Bad Taste&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/linux-file-manager-security-exploit-leaves-a-bad-taste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/islascruz.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1473666099_linux-640x380_story.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s the point of integrating Windows features into Linux if they are not going to be native. Integrating VBScript on linux to run in the File Manager?. Why?<\/p>\n<p>If you need a &#8220;Windows-only&#8221; feature then run windows, with the current machines you can do it perfectly in a Virtual Machine if you want to still run Linux\/macOS, if there is a vulnerability it will be isolated to your VM.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230; I vote for &#8220;integrating&#8221; stuff written for other OS into the main OS.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new vulnerability that impacts Linux systems has been discovered by a researcher. 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