From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 3 20:51: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail-gw1adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (mail-gw1.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE8F157B4; Mon, 3 May 1999 20:51:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ppp-207-193-18-177.hstntx.swbell.net [207.193.18.177]) by mail-gw1adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA11371; Mon, 3 May 1999 22:50:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA11342; Mon, 3 May 1999 22:51:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 22:51:32 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Mike Smith , Seth , 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> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <199905040140.SAA01305@dingo.cdrom.com> <30986.925789368@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.1i In-Reply-To: <30986.925789368@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 08:42:48PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 E Pluribus UNIX. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message