URGENT!

Alex Buell (abuell@eos.EAST.HITC.COM)
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:03:52 -0400


Hi guys,

Has anyone read http://www.rootshell.com's July summaries lately? There
are some security holes in Linux that *needs* fixing, before
script-kiddies starts hacking our boxes to hell and back. :O(

Some of them uses x86 assembler - and one was particularly nasty in that
it gave chmod 777 access to /etc/passwd - yikes!!

BTW, ftp.kernel.org seems to be stuffed full of downloaders all day.

-- 
Cheers,
Alex.

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