Bugtraq: Re: Y2K bug in Shadow IDS (fwd)

[ah () SECURITYFOCUS COM (Alfred Huger)]

Alfred Huger
VP of Engineering
SecurityFocus.com

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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 17:12:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Peter W <peterw () usa net>
To: Alfred Huger <ah () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Subject: Re: Y2K bug in Shadow IDS

At 1:00pm Jan 2, 2000, Alfred Huger wrote:

> I changed the top of 'sensor/variables.ph' into
>
>         # We need various timestamps all over the place
>         @T = localtime;
>         if ($T[5] > 99) {
>         $T[5] -= 100;
>         }
Or
        @T = localtime;
        $T[5] %= 100;

> By the way, the Shadow perl scripts also use /tmp a lot with
> predictable file names, so local exploits are possible,
> but this is more of a Bugtraq issue I guess.
Fun.