[comp.unix.questions] UNIX security holes

rls@aeswaei.UUCP (rls) (05/15/91)

News reports and other published literature regularily
states the use of "well-known" security holes in UNIX
by hackers and system crackers.  I've read about the
one in sendmail, but none others.  Since they're so
"well-known", would someone be willing to identify them
to me (curiosity, you know), or tell me where there is
doc on them?
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huang@husc10.harvard.edu (Howard Huang) (05/17/91)

   states the use of "well-known" security holes in UNIX
   by hackers and system crackers...  Since they're so
   "well-known", would someone be willing to identify them
   to me (curiosity, you know), or tell me where there is
   doc on them?

You can get some PostScript formatted papers describing the Robert Morris
worm of 1988 from prep.ai.mit.edu, in the directory /pub/virus.
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