[4610] in linux-net channel archive
Re: A SERIOUS security problem!!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Racer X)
Mon Sep 30 23:13:34 1996
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 18:29:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Racer X <shagboy@bluesky.net>
Reply-To: shagboy@bluesky.net
To: "Brian A. Lantz" <brian@lantz.com>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960930071254.25146C-100000@lantz.com>
On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Brian A. Lantz wrote:
> Yawn, I KNOW it WAS found long ago, but I also know that there are MANY
> who did not hear of it!
Well, if you KNEW this, then you SHOULD have TOLD those PEOPLE that you
KNOW who didn't HEAR of IT!
> I have received about 40 personal email messages about this since I send
> the message to the list. About 4 of them were "everyone knows that, don't
> bother us with this, stupid" message, while the rest were "Oh my God,
> what's that" messages. Obviously it is NOT as well known (Yawn) as you
> might believe.
Sucks to be them. People who run a site connected to the net should be
smart enough to subscribe to linux-security and related lists, and
periodically check for new CERT & other advisories.
> So EXCUSE ME for trying to help other! I won't make THAT mistake again!!
No problem. But, can you EASE up with the RANDOM capitalization OF words?
Just cuz I'm curious, how'd you manage to "discover" that hole anyway?
shag
Judd Bourgeois | When we are planning for posterity,
shagboy@bluesky.net | we ought to remember that virtue is
Finger for PGP key | not hereditary. Thomas Paine
