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From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 00:38:38 -0500
HOLE IN THE WEB A security glitch was discovered last week in the Mosaic software used to store information on computers linked to the World Wide Web. The flaw allows hackers to gain control of the Web's servers, posing the risk that the Web could be vulnerable to attack by a computer "worm," an automated program that could systematically wipe out all Web sites. "This is the first Web vulnerability that's really serious," says a computer scientist at the Dept. of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability. The University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which created Mosaic, has fashioned a software "patch" that verifies the length of the command strings, thereby prohibiting anyone from tacking on an extra line of potentially damaging commands. (Wall Street Journal 2/21/95 B8)
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