Re: [security] donald 12/20/00:08.02 system check
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:44:14PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:12:49PM +0100, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
> >> On 20 Dec 2000, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> >> > > Dec 20 08:01:47 donald syslogd: Cannot glue message parts together
> >>
> >> looks to me that someone found a really old (2 years ? 3?) nfs
> >> exploit out there
> >
> >Actually, it's only about six months old. It was fixed in potato in
> >mid-June if I remember correctly.
>
> I'm sure I remember seeing somebody try an exploit like that (at least
> one with the same symptoms) against my box back when I was running Red
> Hat, which was a good bit earlier than that. I could be misremembering,
> though.
That was a different one :) There've been a couple over the past few
years.
Dan
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