Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc

[Leigh Porter <leigh () wisper net>]

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..

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Leigh