Re: 18th anniversary of Internet worm a.k.a. Morris worm

[Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>]

my question was:

when was the first provable *public* (as in common sense) announcement of the
exploitability of buffer overflows.

didn't mean to underestimate the morris worm.

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:21:37AM -0800, Blue Boar wrote:
> Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> > I have to conclude that before that, buffer overflows weren't even well
> > known *inside* the security community, much less outside in the wider
> > programming community.
>
> They were known and exploited by 1972, in at least some communities.
> http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/ande72.pdf
> Pages 44 and 45.
> http://osvdb.org/blog/?p=77
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