Vulnerability Development: Re: RES: Maximum Linux Security (d/l)

[kb8rln () PENGUINMASTER COM (Richard Rager)]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Guilherme Mesquita wrote:

> Ok I confess, that old site quote bugs, and some old exploits contained in
> those old books *still work in VERY VERY rare cases* so if a hacker which
> read a book like that has an objective, probably he wouldnt read those books
> to findout how to hack the box with is in his way.
  Please remember programmer sometimes make the same mistakes.

   * No buffer overflow checking
   * sanity checking the user input.

  If you write a stander protocol interface your should try all old
exploit known.

  Enjoy,

  Richard