Insecure hardware (was Re: gets(3) nonsense)

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <14733 at mimsy.UUCP> by chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek):
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| (It is worth noting that the fingerd attack was applied only to VAXen.)
| 
> (deleted; "wwww" is the "worm address" where the worm had to run)
|
| I will, however, note that any number of local changes might have
| moved the address `wwww' far enough to foil the attack.  One could
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>From what I've read, the fingerd attack was applied to Suns as well -- but
the "wwww" address *was* sufficiently wrong, so an infected fingerd simply
dumped core.

++Brandon
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