Re: forged packets?

[dufresne () WINTERNET COM (Ron DuFresne)]

What interestes me, is that if this series or warnings is valid, how not a
single linux security list has yet posted an advisory concerning this to
any of their lists, not the slackware, nor redhat, nor even suse lists.
Though, I guess it took a week or two for those lists to finally latch
onto the wu-ftpd advisory...

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, David Schwartz wrote:

> > Forgive me if Im asking a stupid question this issue has been bothering
>
> >    Any local user can send any packet to any host from most Linux
> > default
>
> > AFAIK, a local user ( root?) on a linux system if running nmap is able
>
> > Any further comments or corrections will be greatly appreciated to clear
>
>       "Any local user" != "root"
>
>       DS

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