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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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