Article 24DKQ [$] GStreamer and the state of Linux desktop security

[$] GStreamer and the state of Linux desktop security

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Recently ChrisEvans, an IT security expert currently working for Tesla, published aseries of blog posts about security vulnerabilities in the GStreamermultimedia framework. A combination of the Chrome browser and GNOME-baseddesktops creates a particularlyscary vulnerability. Evans also made a provocative statement: thatvulnerabilities of this severity currently wouldn't happen inWindows 10. Is the state of security on the Linux desktop really thatbad - and what can be done about it?

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