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Date:      Wed, 26 Jun 1996 19:45:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To:        Thomas Ptacek <tqbf@enteract.com>
Cc:        FREEBSD-SECURITY-L <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How secure is FreeBSD 2.1 right after install?  (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.92.960626194353.8402C-100000@zap.io.org>
In-Reply-To: <199606262256.RAA00837@enteract.com>

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On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Thomas Ptacek wrote:
>
> 8.7.4's got exploitable problems in it... they're just not public
> knowledge yet. People *are* running around with scripts for it.

    It's not public knowledge, yet there are people out there with
exploit scripts.  I assume this situation came about because the holes
haven't been fixed in 8.7.5 yet?  If they have, then there is no
reason to publically disseminate the exploits.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"




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