[3362] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: www web security !
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Thu Oct 24 08:55:40 1996
To: hallam@ai.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:13:13 +0100 (BST)
From: Ben Laurie <ben@gonzo.ben.algroup.co.uk>
Cc: alexf@iss.net, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9610231937.AA01536@etna.ai.mit.edu> from "hallam@ai.mit.edu" at Oct 23, 96 03:37:19 pm
Reply-To: ben@algroup.co.uk
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
hallam@ai.mit.edu wrote:
>
>
> >Re: Sendmail. The latest, 8.8, is vulnerable. The vulnerability was
> >posted to bugtraq and BoS on the 17th. I believe that we are working on
> >adding this test to our latest version of the Intranet Scanner software (I
> >don't know off-hand when you will be able to download a version that will
> >include this check, though. Check the web site periodically).
>
> Re sendmail, just do not use this piece of incompetent software. If
> you must have a mailer on the machine at all run one that was
> written by someone who is marginaly competent.
What would you recommend?
Cheers,
Ben.
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