Re: security: crontab

[<ben ultraswank com>]

Neat!  I hadn't heard of this before and I am very impressed.  Nice little
program, thank you Bell Labs.  This is going in my "Need to install on all
new systems" list.

-Ben Newman

"Before I'm done you will all taste my meaty brain chunks."
						Spider Jerusalem

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Michael Ghens wrote:
> 
> > I just cannot believe this. I just tested an old vixie cron exploit
> > against crontab. It was a clasic buffer overflow attack. I have a
> > RH6.2 WITH UPDATES. It worked. This exploit is almost over a year old.
> 
> Have you tried installing libsafe on your system? It should prevent all
> buffer overflow exploits, and (at least on my machine) doesn't seem to
> impact performance in any noticeable way.
> 
> -- 
> Todd A. Jacobs
> Senior Network Consultant
> 
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