[8675] in bugtraq
Re: bootpd remote vulnerability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Crispin Cowan)
Sun Dec 6 12:26:21 1998
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 08:16:36 +0000
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: Crispin Cowan <crispin@CSE.OGI.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
John McDonald wrote:
> I checked out some operating systems, and determined that freebsd, and
> the linux distributions that I checked (slackware and debian) were not
> vulnerable to remote code execution.
Is Linux not vulnerable for some systemic reason, or because the distributed
bootp doesn't have the vulnerability?
Thanks,
Crispin
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