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[cobalt-security] Re: raq 550 observations (Was: VHOST over two IP's?)
- Subject: [cobalt-security] Re: raq 550 observations (Was: VHOST over two IP's?)
- From: Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:59:36 -0500
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
Once upon a time, Eugene Crosser <crosser@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> On a bright side, the system apparently comes with a stack overflow
> protection hack (non-executable stack patch? Don't know exectly) and
> some intrusion detection thing based on IP traffic analysis.
Remember, a non-executable stack is mostly just an annoyance to
crackers. Tru64 Unix comes out of the box with non-executable stack
enabled by default, and yet there are still buffer overflow security
holes in it.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.