[1905] in bugtraq
Re: Muffett's AuTOHack + [8lgm] sendmail advisory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil Woods)
Tue May 23 17:51:55 1995
From: Neil Woods <neil@legless.demon.co.uk>
To: Alec Muffett <Alec.Muffett@UK.Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 19:13:25 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <9505230653.AA22476@coyote.UK.Sun.COM> from "Alec Muffett" at May 23, 95 07:53:37 am
>
>
> Julian Assange wrote:
>
> >Muffett's rather dissipointing paper is available from:
> [...]
> >Which just goes to prove that where there is smoke there can just be
> >cinders.
>
> Thank's for the critique; I never said that it was a *wonderful* paper
> - I just said that I was withdrawing it for the time being.
( I was going to say the following:
"You didn't say it was crap either!"
or
"Well why did you write it then?!"
But I thought better of it ;-).
Please note the ;-), Alec :-)))))))))).
So as to add a bit of content for the first time in a few days, I think
the vulnerability noted in the latest [8lgm] advisory can be used to
attack soft targets behind a firewall - ie. access to the SMTP port of
a target isnt necessary, IMCO.
Cheers,
Neil
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