Interesting article at:

http://www.sddt.com/files/library/98/06/25/tbc.html
Programmers at San Diego Source, the online news service of the San Diego
Daily Transcript, have discovered a security hole affecting Web server
software from both Netscape Communications and software and book publisher
O'Reilly & Associates.

The bug, allowing for the display of sensitive programming code being served
by Windows NT and Windows 95 versions of Netscape Enterprise and O'Reilly &
Associates' WebSite Professional, can be used by hackers to glean
information considered by programmers to be invisible. The bug could allow
for easy display of private documents featuring database passwords, user
names and even programming codes that make events occur but are not meant
for public perusal.

So far the flaw has been shown to affect only machines running under the
Windows operating system, but it is not clear if these are the only two Web
server programs affected.


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