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Date:      Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:09:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>
Cc:        Scott <scott@SchematiX.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Huge Bug in FreeBSD not fixed?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980811130835.22030B-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980811095340.0092e900@mail.scancall.no>

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On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Marius Bendiksen wrote:

> >I would like to know if other systes are vulnerable as well. I discussed
> >this matter on IRC and everyone said they had similar problems. This bug
> >needs to be addressed soon. I would HATE switching to linux because my
> >system keeps crashing.
> 
> I experienced the same thing, with someone on IRC threatening to take down
> my box. Of course, I laughed at him, but then my box went down. He also

  This bug requires shell access to your box to be exploited.  

> said he was going to attack freefall, and that would _certainly_ be bad
> news. He was running Linux, as I recall.

  Not without shell access to freefall, which only the developers have.

> ---
> Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS

Tom


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