From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 6 01:10:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA23867 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 01:10:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA23856 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 01:10:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA00944 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 10:10:17 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA07920; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 09:19:08 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 09:19:07 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blacklisting and being "asked" to deinstall FreeBSD - you heard that right! References: <26186.855196650@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Jamie Bowden on Feb 6, 1997 00:08:55 -0500 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jamie Bowden wrote: > So what is this 'threat'? And how severe is it? I mean, sendmail has > delivered remote root on demand in the last three releases, so how bad > can this really be? Less, since it required at least a valid local user first. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)