Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 16:28:36 -0500 (EST) From: John Dowdal <jdowdal@destiny.erols.com> To: proff@suburbia.net Cc: Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com>, hackers@freebsd.org, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961214162415.20730A-100000@destiny.erols.com> In-Reply-To: <19961214204416.972.qmail@suburbia.net>
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On Sun, 15 Dec 1996 proff@suburbia.net wrote: > Unfortunately this isn't a total cure, because there are 1001 stack overflows > in NON-suid programs. So what. The programs will just core dump if they stack overflow, else just not work right. Since they are not SUID and not run as root [inetd, ...], they won't be able to get root if they blow up. John
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