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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 05:44:58 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Kristen Doyle <colk@tampabay.rr.com>
Cc: FreeBSD securit <Freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Remote Shell Trojan
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On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 08:07:35AM -0400, Kristen Doyle wrote:
> Can anyone say for certian if FreeBSD is effected either as a base system=
 or
> under linux compat
>=20
> the description of the vuln is here
> http://www.qualys.com/alert/remoteshell.html

You could do something like this under almost any operating system
including FreeBSD.  It doesn't exploit a security vulnerability per
se, it relies on being introduced into the system in another manner.

Kris

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