From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 20:34:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4881914E97 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:34:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA07991; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:34:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199907270334.XAA07991@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: About the security issue in NY Times In-Reply-To: <19990727124216.M62218@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 27, 99 12:42:16 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:34:28 -0400 (EDT) Cc: stede@dgriffin.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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