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Re: Seyon buffer overflow exploit.

From: Damian M Gryski <dgryski () uwaterloo ca>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:41:45 -0500

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Olaf Kirch wrote:

Seyon is known to be broken (and has been for years), but vendors aren't
allowed to fix it because of the licensing terms. The author can't be
found, it seems, so it should have been removed from all distributions
by now.


   According to the Debian package's copyright, in May of 1999 the author
   changed the license to GPL.

   http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-copyright?package=seyon

   Damian

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Seyon buffer overflow exploit. teleh0r (Jan 09)
- Re: Seyon buffer overflow exploit. Olaf Kirch (Jan 10)
  - Re: Seyon buffer overflow exploit. Damian M Gryski (Jan 10)