Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 03:32:38 +0200 (MDT) From: Denis Fortin <fortin@zap.qc.ca> To: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> Cc: Thomas Ptacek <tqbf@enteract.com>, FREEBSD-SECURITY-L <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How secure is FreeBSD 2.1 right after install? (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960627032249.14446A-100000@zap.zap.qc.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960626194353.8402C-100000@zap.io.org>
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On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Brian Tao wrote: > 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. 8.7.5 is a very minor update over 8.7.4 that gets around a tiny bug that could cause network connections to hang. If there's a hole in 8.7.4, I fully expect 8.7.5 to also exhibit it. Denis, sigh... PS. What this world needs is a really simple smtpd
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