From owner-freebsd-security Sat Sep 4 2:13: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D4414F44 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 02:13:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA69730; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 02:12:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, spork Subject: Re: Security Alerts In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Sep 1999 23:06:42 PDT." Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 02:12:32 -0700 Message-ID: <69726.936436352@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I don't know C programming very well at all, I am starting a C class > in a week, but is there something I could do to help with this > situation? That's a hard question to answer - it really depends on the exploit. Most don't really require a firm knowledge of C to understand since they come already written and you basically just need to compile and run them. You have to have enough advanced FreeBSD knowledge, however, to distinguish an "exploit" from a DoS to a just-plain-bogus report and only you know whether that's true in your case. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message