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Re: Process table attack (from RISKS Digest)


From: dugsong () MONKEY ORG (Dug Song)
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:06:35 -0500


On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Mark Boolootian forwarded:

From: "Simson L. Garfinkel" <simsong () vineyard net>
Subject: Process-table attack

Wide-ranging attack works against almost any UNIX systems on the Internet

interesting paper on a possible solution:

        http://www.scout.cs.arizona.edu/scout/Papers/TR98-10.ps

see http://www.scout.cs.arizona.edu/scout/scout_scout.html for more info.

-d.

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