Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:34:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: stede@dgriffin.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About the security issue in NY Times Message-ID: <199907270334.XAA07991@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <19990727124216.M62218@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 27, 99 12:42:16 pm"
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Greg Lehey wrote, > On Monday, 26 July 1999 at 22:45:10 -0400, Stede Bonnet wrote: > > In todays Business section, an article by Sara Robinson discusses a > > security problem apparent on UNIX OS's. > > > > How is that related to FreeBSD? Do I have anything to worry about, and > > what should I do if I need to do something? > > I don't know. We don't get the New York Times here. What were the > details? Is it on the web somewhere? http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/biztech/articles/26flaw.html Registration is required to access the pages, but hey, free access to the NY Times? Anyway, IIRC, they are talking about rpc.cmsd which would effect pretty much only Suns. Problems with RPC daemons never shock me too much. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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