Hack-Attempt on dobag (ISC-Bugs)

[Paul De Bra]

In article <1991Apr02.041525.14582 at rfengr.com> rfarris at rfengr.com (Rick Farris) writes:
>You know, we piss and moan about the security bugs in ISC,
>but the month doesn't go by that I don't get an "URGENT
>SECURITY VIOLATION IN PROGRESS" message from CERT/CC about
>SUNs. 
>
>Speaking of which, how come the ISC bug never showed up
>there?

Cert only posts announcements of this nature after
the vendor has developed a fix and distributed it to its
major distributors and customers.

The purpose of Cert announcements is to help sysadmins protect their
systems agains hackers, not to help hackers break in to systems.

Paul.
(debra at win.tue.nl)