RE: [LI] root access from old sendmail boxes

["Urmil Parikh" <urmil@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's true. If you publish a crack openly, everybody can know it and
protect their systems. Doesn't it give advantages similar to open source?

Regards
Urmil Parikh

| -----Original Message-----
|
| On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 01:04:33PM +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote:
| > Suresh - in future, don't publish the details of a crack, just the
| > warnings.
| >
|
| A cracker will always get all the info he wants. But what about us? Give
| us a chance!
|
| Honestly, I would not have believed Mr. Suresh if he said "Sendmail 8.8.4
| has a bug that crackers can exploit to gain r00t.", without giving the
| details.
|
| --
|
| Manoj Victor Mathew  (GPG#: 3D96A9B9)
| Cochin, India.

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