Subject: Re: Code-red worm (snicker snicker...)
To: Steven M. Bellovin <netbsd-users@netbsd.org, smb@research.att.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/02/2001 20:06:41
In article <20010802142555.34C357B4B@berkshire.research.att.com> you wrote:
> No -- it could have happened to any OS.  It was a buffer overflow, 
> and there are lots of those on Unix systems, too.  Should one be found 
> in Apache, the Net might be worse off, because Apache has so much more 
> market share than IIS does.  

On Unix, just because you can overflow a buffer doesn't mean the CPU
can run the code you feed it. 


 - Hubert

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