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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc
Sharif Torpis wrote: > > > Why is that a problem? Unless somebody could execute the code on the > > boxthen it is not a threat - closed systems, like WWW servers (most > > servers like > > that really) should not be in any danger. > > Two words: buffer overflow. You don't always have to have a shell to execute > code on a closed system. What is a "closed system" anyway? Is that like > "computer security"? ;-) Ok, Point taken - but if anything has problems with those two words then a bit of code that crashes the box is not the only way of bringing things down.. Yes, it's smaller and probobly easier to get in though.. -- Leigh
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