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Subject: Re: syslogd risk
From: cactus @ bb . com (L. Todd Masco)
Organization: Bibliobytes books on computers, info @ bb . com
Date: 14 Oct 1994 20:26:33 -0400
To: firewalls @ bb . hks . net
References: <9410141438 . AA15944 @ zaphod . wrkgrp . com>

In article <9410141438 .
 AA15944 @
 zaphod .
 wrkgrp .
 com>,
John A Cifonelli <wrkgrp!zaphod!jac @
 uunet .
 uu .
 net> wrote:
>See the brilliant paper "The Internet Worm Program: An Analysis",
>by Eugene Spafford, November 28, 1988, page 4, section 3.1.1,
>"fingerd and gets".  Any of the C library string routines should
>be considered problematic in the context of system/security software.
>The paper may be obtained via anon ftp from ftp.cs.purdue.edu.

If you've got a web browser, try:

<A HREF = "http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/eichin/virus/main.html";>
	Morris Worm</A>
-- 
L. Todd Masco  | Ingredients:  red, blue, and green quarks, six varieties of
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