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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Insecure hardware (was Re: gets(3) nonsense)
Message-ID: <13203@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 88 17:25:22 GMT
References: <867@cernvax.UUCP> <645@quintus.UUCP> <339@igor.Rational.COM> <4869@bsu-cs.UUCP> <14733@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <14733@mimsy.UUCP> by chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek):
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| (It is worth noting that the fingerd attack was applied only to VAXen.)
|
> (deleted; "wwww" is the "worm address" where the worm had to run)
|
| I will, however, note that any number of local changes might have
| moved the address `wwww' far enough to foil the attack. One could
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From what I've read, the fingerd attack was applied to Suns as well -- but
the "wwww" address *was* sufficiently wrong, so an infected fingerd simply
dumped core.
++Brandon
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