[2815] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Citrix acknowledges software security flaw
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David W. Morris)
Tue Aug 27 06:40:25 1996
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 23:24:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: "David W. Morris" <dwm@shell.portal.com>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <01BB926D.3A158500@max6-153.HiWAAY.net>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Leslie Sweeney wrote:
> The headline "Citrix acknowledges software security flaw" was reported
> by Reuters news service. The complete article can be found at:
> http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/960823/tech/stories/citrix_1.html
>
> The article reports that the availability of ActiveX has been temporarily
> suspended at certain web sites pending investigation.
Actually it is worth reading the article. The headline was a bit
of a misrepresentation ... Citrix actually only acknowledged that some
of the installations of their software had not properly activated
security features.
Dave Morris
