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Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil Woods)
Wed Sep 13 10:07:18 1995

Date:         Wed, 13 Sep 1995 03:29:08 +0100
Reply-To: oot@iifeak.swan.ac.uk
From: Neil Woods <neil@legless.demon.co.uk>
X-To:         BUGTRAQ@CRIMELAB.COM
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In-Reply-To:  <m0ss46H-000141C@iiit.swan.ac.uk> from "System Administrator" at
              Sep 11, 95 09:20:20 am

>
> > 3) Rampant hacking would ensue.
> >
> > As for vulnerability, I believe both FreeBSD and Linux have fixes
> > available.
>
> libc4.7.2 fixed it in May. I had assumed that their fix and log in the
> libc was what had sparked the alert.. ah well wrong again 8)
>
> Alan
>

Never looked at linux code, is libc BSD or a total rewrite?

Cheers,

Neil
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