Internet Virus: SunOS patches
David F. Carlson
dave at micropen
Wed Nov 9 01:02:06 AEST 1988
In article <76493 at sun.uucp>, chuq at plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
> The following modifications have been approved by Sun Microsystems
> Customer Support to fix the current Internet Virus problem. This is a
Its probably in the past enough to wonder what the h&%$ SUN and other vendors
like Mt. XINU were *thinking of* when they went into the Makefiles and enabled
the known security risk of sendmail debug mode. In this forum, (under its
previous incarnation as unix-wizards), it was a known fact that sendmail
contained a back door debug mode as wide as a football field. I cannot
figure out why these companies propagated this "bug" when even I was familiar
with this "problem" from this net though I am certainly not a security or
sendmail specialist.
It will be a long time before we have a responsible user community. Some
vandals will always be around. But we must have responsible vendors to
make it hard on them.
--
David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc.
micropen!dave at ee.rochester.edu
"The faster I go, the behinder I get." --Lewis Carroll
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