Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 22:51:32 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Seth <seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG, jamie@exodus.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 remote reboot exploit (fwd) Message-ID: <19990503225131.I10291@holly.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <30986.925789368@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 08:42:48PM -0700 References: <199905040140.SAA01305@dingo.cdrom.com> <30986.925789368@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, May 3, 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I have to say that Jamie really let us down by not running a raw > > tcpdump alongside the second targetted machine here. Any chance of > > provoking these people into "demonstrating" the exploit on a machine, > > while another connected to the same wire is running > > I'd say he or whomever first reported this to bugtraq let us down even > more by releasing an "advisory" in such an unknown and unverifyable > state. By doing so, all they've done is hand ammunition to the FUD > corps and given us no reasonable chance to respond since the advisory I get the impression that that was the whole point of the bugtraq post, to give us more grief. [chop] > - Jordan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> E Pluribus UNIX. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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