Subject: Re: Code-red worm (snicker snicker...)
To: Michael Kukat <michael@unixiron.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/02/2001 20:33:37
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Michael Kukat wrote:
> if the buffer overflow allows execution of code. So just start with "#!/bin/sh"
> and it will run on every platform, can modify /etc/inetd.conf, HUP it, and
> voila, your shell on some port is open...

Um, I'm afraid one of us two doesn't understand how a buffer overflow
works... We're not talking about overwriting executable files here after
all, right?


  - Hubert

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