[96888] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat bugs???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Saltzman)
Thu Oct 29 19:35:47 1998
From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs@math.clemson.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:34:54 -0500 (EST)
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This all started back when Leo Zayas wrote:
>etc...)... Apparently he got into my computer thanks to a bug in
>redhat's linux distribution (or so he said)... He told me the bug in
>question is in lpd (among others). He also said that, in order to
>protect myself, I should disable the printing service, by commenting out
>the line in /etc/services, but this leaves me without proper printing
>environment (I have to manually run lpd as root every time I send a job
>to print).
Now there's been lots of discussion of general security issues, which
is all well and good, but
Does anyone know what the lpd exploit is?
There's nothing on the Updates page at RedHat that looks like it
addresses this.
Thanks.
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs@clemson.edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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