From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 11 13:10:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26885 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:10:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA26879 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:10:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0z6Kjs-0006Sc-00; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:09:48 -0700 Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:09:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Marius Bendiksen cc: Scott , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Huge Bug in FreeBSD not fixed? In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980811095340.0092e900@mail.scancall.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message