Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 11:33:23 -0300 From: Fernando Schapachnik <fschapachnik@vianetworks.com.ar> To: Hassan Halta <hassan@cs.earlham.edu> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using dump for backups. Message-ID: <20011021113323.A77630@ns1.via-net-works.net.ar> In-Reply-To: <20011020231659.H77421-100000@quark.cs.earlham.edu>; from hassan@cs.earlham.edu on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:19:26PM -0500 References: <20011020231659.H77421-100000@quark.cs.earlham.edu>
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dump has had a history of exploitable overflows, which of course had been fixed. Anyway, the risk was just having it on the system, and using it or not didn't change the risk. Regards. En un mensaje anterior, Hassan Halta escribió: > Hi all, > > I was thinking of using dump/restore way to backup files on the system. I > heard sometime ago that FreeBSD dump was insecure. So, I am wondering if > this is still the case, and how insecure it is, or what the fixes for it? > I would like to know more about it if possible, > > Thanks a lot, > > Hassan > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message Fernando P. Schapachnik Gerente de tecnología de red y sistemas de información VIA NET.WORKS ARGENTINA S.A. fschapachnik@vianetworks.com.ar Tel.: (54-11) 4323-3381 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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