[13634] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharif Torpis)
Wed Nov 12 14:54:45 1997
From: Sharif Torpis <storpis@crl.com>
To: leigh@wisper.net
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:16:51 -0800 (PST)
Cc: bruce@greatbasin.net, randy@psg.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3469F51A.736072C@wisper.net> from "Leigh Porter" at Nov 12, 97 06:27:38 pm
> Why is that a problem? Unless somebody could execute the code on the
> boxthen it is not a threat - closed systems, like WWW servers (most
> servers like
> that really) should not be in any danger.
Two words: buffer overflow. You don't always have to have a shell to execute
code on a closed system. What is a "closed system" anyway? Is that like
"computer security"? ;-)
