[3821] in bugtraq
Re: CERT/AUCERT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Thu Dec 19 19:41:20 1996
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 17:48:24 -0600
Reply-To: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
X-To: itudps <itudps@ntx.city.unisa.edu.au>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.94.961220092356.25910R-100000@ntx.city.unisa.edu.au>
On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, itudps wrote:
> It seems to me that they might have a case for not acknowledging when all
> that was posted was an exploit, not a fix. However when both are posted
> together it smacks of plagurism to me to repost another version of the fix
> without acknowledgement. By this logic the author of the recent SGI stuff
> should get a mention but SOD should not, since SOD don't (as far as I can
> recollect) publish fixes as well.
Please read your mail archives again. Yuri's fixes where as extensive
as those of SOD. In other words 'chmod u-s'. SOD just comes across with a
bit more flare should we say. It is also difficult to provide a fix
without access to source code.
> --
> Dan Shearer email: Dan.Shearer@UniSA.edu.au
> Information Technology Unit Phone: +61 8 302 3479
> University of South Australia Fax : +61 8 302 3385
>
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