[510] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: Avalon Release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avalon Security Research)
Sat Dec 9 21:30:05 1995
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 20:11:20 -0700 (MST)
From: Avalon Security Research <asr@crimson.cadvision.com>
To: Baba Z Buehler <baba@beckman.uiuc.edu>
cc: root <root@crimson.cadvision.com>,
Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu>,
linux-alert@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu, linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu,
bugtraq@crimelab.com, big-linux@netspace.org
In-Reply-To: <199512071649.KAA30454@tigger.beckman.uiuc.edu>
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Baba Z Buehler wrote:
> There is no Linux 2-3.X. It would be much more helpfull if you would list
My apoligies, it was in incorrectly numbered.
> versions of the kernel, libc and program that were used to exploit the
hole.
This has nothing to do with libc. Moreover the program used to exploit
the hole was in the very same release you replied to in case you somehow
missed it.
> If you're going to list version numbers on Linux distributions, at least name
> the distribution you're getting the number from.
It was supposed to be slackware. Although as far as I know this problem
exists in RedHat as well.
>
> Thanks,
Your quite welcome.
