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Re: slapper countermeasures



On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 06:05, Michael Renzmann wrote:
> "killall .bugtraq" would be suitable as well, and it would "destroy" 
> every other instance of the program that is running currently. Even if 
> detecting the current PPID does not work for whatever reason.

*chuckle*

Solaris is vulnerable to this bug?  Solaris "killall" kills _everything_
- not just the named process.

'course, given they're theoretically not running the webserver as root,
this shouldn't be a huge issue...  But it's not as social as you might
think.

KJL
(Who knows this from bitter experience...)



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