Gene Buckle writes: > Thanks Norman. I wish they'd stop writing such crap. *sigh* > > g. > > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Norman Vine wrote: > > > FYI > > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-07.html
On average for the last 10 years, Sendmail has probably been good for one of these alerts per week. :-) Most of them probably aren't as serious as they sound though. A lot of unix security alerts are for "theoretical" problems with no known implimentation of an exploit. Part of the problem is that sendmail is a program that has to openly chatter with anyone on the internet that wants to talk. And it has to have a certain level of system priveledge since it often needs to deliver mail ... that's just asking for trouble. :-) Outlook is a program that (doesn't have to) but seems happy to run just about any program anyone on the internet wants to send it. I've heard stories that in some cases, outlook will open/run the attachment silently behind the scenes even if you just delete the message without reading it. It's one of those pieces of software that was written to be used in a happy place where everyone get's along and no one does anything mean to each other ... like at ... I don't know ... tele tubby land or something. Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
