[13636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Wed Nov 12 15:45:32 1997
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 05:39:20 +0100
From: Leigh Porter <leigh@wisper.net>
To: Sharif Torpis <storpis@crl.com>
CC: bruce@greatbasin.net, randy@psg.com, nanog@merit.edu
Sharif Torpis wrote:
>
> > 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"? ;-)
Ok, Point taken - but if anything has problems with those two words
then a bit of code that crashes the box is not the only way of
bringing things down..
Yes, it's smaller and probobly easier to get in though..
--
Leigh
