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Date:      Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:07:21 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Paul Hart <hart@iserver.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The 99,999-bug question: Why can you execute from the    stack? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980721120530.1666J-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807202328.RAA26899@lariat.lariat.org>

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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 02:57 PM 7/20/98 -0600, Paul Hart wrote:
>
> >Consider Bugtraq and the other popular security mailing lists as required
> >reading.  Absolutely.  None of these holes would have taken you by
> >surprise if you had diligently read these lists.
> 
> Not necessarily. An exploit can be used long before it hits the lists.
> 
>

Not not necessarily.  Absolutely.  If you were ware of it when the rest of
us were, you would have had it fixed.  Period.


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