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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My guess is it was an actual gif that exploited some flaw in how the OS handled gifs and thus was able to execute code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That would make sense. Thanks for coming up with an explanation. I did wonder when I thought about this earlier.