Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:34:54 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <freyes@inch.com> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Stede Bonnet" <stede@dgriffin.org> Cc: "dutch@charm.net" <dutch@charm.net>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About the security issue in NY Times Message-ID: <199907270334.XAA06264@arutam.inch.com>
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On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:42:16 +0930, G wrote: >On Monday, 26 July 1999 at 22:45:10 -0400, Stede Bonnet wrote: >> In todays Business section, an article by Sara Robinson discusses a >> security problem apparent on UNIX OS's. >> How is that related to FreeBSD? >Is it on the web somewhere? http://search.nytimes.com/books/search/bin/fastweb?getdoc+cyber-lib+cybe r-lib+13579+0+wAAA+unix Requires a free subscription to the Online NY Times One significant paragraphs is: >The attacks primarily exploit software that manages an appointment >calendar program that is shipped with Unix operating systems from >makers of powerful servers, including Sun Microsystems Inc. and >Hewlett-Packard Co. Sun has already released a patch for the problem, >and Hewlett-Packard plans to do so soon, according to CERT. There is also a mention of a program which checks for known holes, but this is not new. There are been programs like this for a while. (i.e. Satan) Probably the most significant paragraph is: >Though patches for the previously identified bugs have been available for >some time, many system administrators have not yet applied them. Doesn't really seem like these are new bugs, just that they have been recently been used by crackers in a larger scale than before. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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