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Re: Hostile X servers
From: perry () piermont com (Perry E. Metzger)
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 12:32:22 -0400
Zygo Blaxell writes:
For those of us who've been paying attention for the last six months, this can be no surprise. However, this makes me think of other X-related attacks.
There are dozens of X attacks. My generic way to stop them these days is to compile the X server without TCP support. Yes, this still makes users vulnerable to others logging in to their workstation, but it does totally eliminate the threat of others on the network hitting them. It does perhaps reduce functionality somewhat, but you can get it back with things like ssh to provide tunnels for applications... Perry
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- Re: Hostile X servers Perry E. Metzger (Sep 03)
- Re: Hostile X servers Zygo Blaxell (Sep 03)