[1134] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: PRINCETON STUDENTS FIND HOLE IN INTERNET SECURITY SOFTWARE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Lipp)
Wed Nov 8 06:18:50 1995
From: "Peter Lipp" <plipp@iaik.tu-graz.ac.at>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 21:21:40 +0100
In-Reply-To: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
"PRINCETON STUDENTS FIND HOLE IN INTERNET SECURITY SOFTWARE" (Nov 6, 7:54am)
To: sameer <sameer@c2.org>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Nov 6, 7:54am, sameer wrote:
> The holes they found exist only in the alpha release of HotJava. The
> beta release, which is the version found in the widely-used Netscape
> Navigator 2.0b1J is not vulnerable to these attacks.
If so, whats the relevance?
(Btw. I did not know that Java is regarded as beeing a security
software :-)
Peter
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