Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

["Benedict Verheyen" <linux4bene@pandora.be>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hasler" <john@dhh.gt.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??


> I wrote:
> > Privately delivering the exploit to the appropriate people would
have
> > gotten the bug fixed at least as quickly.
>
> Benedict writes:
> > Are there people out there that really do this? I mean, try to break
in
> > and post this to the people that can fix it?
>
> Who said anything about trying to break in?  I'm talking about the
exploit
> of the kernel brk() bug.

I know you didn't. It was just a thought i had.

Benedict