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Re: [security] donald 12/20/00:08.02 system check



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.

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]



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