"Elazar Broad" <[email protected]> writes: > <snip> > Can't you? The world is full of unpatched systems. You can even find > systems where patches are not installed because it is running a > piece of > mission critical software and they would lose support if they > installed > any patches (I am not making this up). > </snip> > > Spot on. I know of one large accounting/ERP system(which shall > remain nameless, though I am sure there are those out there who > have come across it) that checked the SQL version, including the > revision number at runtime, which made patching SQL impossible.
Or Gaussian: http://gaussian.com/g09_plat.htm "The Linux RedHat and SuSE versions specified for IA32, IA64 and EM64T/Operton systems refer only to the unmodified, unpatched original media/ISO image distributions as released by the vendor." -- / Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing Leif Nixon - Security officer < National Supercomputer Centre \ Nordic Data Grid Facility _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
