Date: 10/11/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: security

While the vulnerability at this point is theoretical -- the main fix so far is an update to security coding rulepacks -- the alert highlights just how sophisticated criminal gangs are becoming in their efforts to hijack PCs for use by botnets, which are now the major security threat on the Internet.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/168487082/