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Re: bootpd remote vulnerability

From: crispin () CSE OGI EDU (Crispin Cowan)
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 08:16:36 +0000


John McDonald wrote:

I checked out some operating systems, and determined that freebsd, and
the linux distributions that I checked (slackware and debian) were not
vulnerable to remote code execution.


Is Linux not vulnerable for some systemic reason, or because the distributed
bootp doesn't have the vulnerability?

Thanks,
    Crispin
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