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[linux-security] Re: portmap vulnerability?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt)
Mon Dec 14 03:30:19 1998

To: linux-security@kochab.cv.nrao.edu
From: Matt <panzer@dhp.com>
Date: 14 Dec 1998 08:06:52 GMT
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Resent-Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com

In mail.linux.security cfb <cfb@ocn21.kdd-ok.ne.jp> wrote:
: How many processes does something like ssmtp kick off?  Not enough to be
: significant, plus you won't risk having your filesystem fill up.  Just

The mail needs to go to a spool.  The spool needs to be saved to a disk.
The disk is finite.  Words like "not enough to be significant" can get you
in trouble very quickly in security. :)
-- 
-Matt Drown     -- Privacy, Anonyminity, & Security -- DataHaven Project
 panzer@dhp.com -- Shell and Web accounts           -- http://www.dhp.com/ 

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