Xref: utzoo news.admin:4087 news.sysadmin:1697 comp.mail.uucp:2366 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!vsi1!lmb From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet! Message-ID: <1250@vsi1.UUCP> Date: 27 Nov 88 22:48:08 GMT References: <1971@van-bc.UUCP> <572@comdesign.CDI.COM> <5517@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <561@redsox.UUCP> <2675@epimass.EPI.COM> Reply-To: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA Lines: 13 in article <2675@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes: =It is possible for a phony script to fill up the filesystem or =overwrite the maps, but that's a risk I'm willing to take (as opposed =to reading through 4Mb of map postings a month to make sure they are =safe). Given that "uuhosts" can be obtained from comp.sources.* =archive sites, if you're worried, run it! I disagree with Joe entirely. Running out of inodes does some really nasty things to your system, and that's one of the easiest things to make happen. Why execute the map script when uuhosts can easily be modified to unpack them with a script? -- Larry Blair ames!vsi1!lmb lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov