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Re: at the risk of another flamefest..
From: isdmill () gatekeeper ddp state me us (David Miller)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:56:20 -0400
On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Mike Neuman wrote:
In any case, to add yet another level of indirection to the above argument, Mr. Bradley is forgetting that Unix itself is written in C. As a result, perl may have no bound problems, and so will the resulting compiled perl code, but the operating system itself could still have problems (a la syslog() ).
Good point but lousy example. Syslog is just user level code. Is it posible buffer overflow conditions might exist in the kernel somewhere such that one could overwrite critical data like one's UID? --- David Miller ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's *amazing* what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do!
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- Re: at the risk of another flamefest.. Peter Jeremy (Jul 15)
- Re: at the risk of another flamefest.. David Stagner (Jul 15)
- identd hole? Brett L. Hawn (Jul 15)
- Re: identd hole? Rob Quinn (Jul 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: at the risk of another flamefest.. Eugene Bradley (Jul 15)
- Re: at the risk of another flamefest.. Eugene Bradley (Jul 15)
- Re: at the risk of another flamefest.. Mike Neuman (Jul 15)
- Re: at the risk of another flamefest.. Brian Clapper (Jul 16)
- Re: at the risk of another flamefest.. David Miller (Jul 16)
- Re: at the risk of another flamefest.. David Stagner (Jul 16)
- [linux-security] sliplogin David Holland (Jul 16)
- Re: at the risk of another flamefest.. Steve \ (Jul 16)
- Re: at the risk of another flamefest.. Eugene Bradley (Jul 16)