Subject: Re: E-mail CERT Alert

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 12:52:21 -0800

This article is referring to 20 variants of sendmail....

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On 24 Feb 1995, Don Sugarman wrote:

> Date: 24 Feb 1995 11:30:04 -0800
> From: Don Sugarman <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: E-mail CERT Alert
> 
> 
> Regarding the following item from Edupage, does anyone have the details?
> 
> Don Sugarman
> [email-masked]
> 
> MORE SECURITY PROBLEMS ON THE INTERNET
> The Computer Emergency Response Team has issued a public warning on a
> vulnerability in some 20 commonly used e-mail programs that run on Unix
> operating systems.  The advisory said the latest discovery could allow a
> hacker to "read any file on the system, overwrite or destroy files."  The
> ultimate solution to these recurrent security problems, says Purdue
> University professor Eugene Spafford, is for consumers to demand better
> security features from software manufacturers.  In the absence of improved
> software, "are we going to continue seeing problems? You bet."  (Wall
> Street Journal 2/23/95 B8)
> 
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