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Date:      Sat, 29 Jan 2000 09:13:48 -0800
From:      Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: delegate buffer overflow (ports) 
Message-ID:  <E12EbRU-00038F-00@rip.psg.com>

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> THIS PORT CONTAINS KNOWN SECURITY HOLES WHICH ALLOW A REMOTE ATTACKER
> TO EASILY TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR MACHINE

might i suggest a taxonomy of vulnerabilities:
  o vulnerable to remote attack
  o vulnerable to attack by local user
  o vulnetable to email or similarly indirect attack

in a 'closed' environment, one might not be as worried about the latter
two.

randy


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