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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:17:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Jonas Anderson <jonas@null.dk>
To:        Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RedHat: Buffer Overflow in "ls" and "mkdir"
Message-ID:  <20041025001544.B98260@luhmann.netc.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200410242309.20831.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
References:  <200410242157.i9OLvRRt011248@2ens11.uta.edu> <2EBC39BA-2608-11D9-9B79-0003939726F0@amadeus.demon.nl> <200410242309.20831.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>

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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote:

> On Sunday 24 October 2004 23:00, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote:
> > On 24 okt 2004, at 23:57, RedHat Security Team wrote:

> > >    Dear RedHat user,
> >
> > huh?
> > I thought I ran FreeBSD...
>
> I guess so did I - not really sure that there are any relevance...

The domain hosting the files was registered yesterday. Anyone with half an
eye open would spot the attempt at installing malicious software on a
bunch of redhat machines.
I haven't looked at the actual files, but that's what it looks like to me.

Best regards,

-- 
-Jonas

P.S. worst part is that I am sure someone falls for things like these.



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