Re: lpd exploit?

["Larry W. Cashdollar" <lwc () VAPID DHS ORG>]

Paranoia is good when it comes to computer security.  And just because you
have never seen it does not mean it does not exist.

The lpd daemon is notorious for being insecure.    A search on
securityfocus.com will show you a few older exploits for it.

I thought redhat 7.0 was using CUPS?

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Mark wrote:

> This is paranoia.  By default, redhat 7 runs lpd as user 'lp', and I have
> never seen any exploits for this daemon.
>
> mark
> tort () dethbystereo com
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 root () MICROSOFT COM wrote:
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> > Not sure if this is true or not, but I thought I'd give a heads-up...