Security Exploits found in FreeBSD 4.10's ports tree.

Lupe Christoph lupe at lupe-christoph.de
Wed Dec 15 22:40:57 PST 2004


On Wednesday, 2004-12-15 at 17:03:59 -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:

> This made it to Slashdot today,

I can't find anything resembling this on Slashdot. Can you please
provide a link to the article?

> but what they didn't mention is that the
> xploits were found in FreeBSD 4.10's ports tree (at least the few that I've
> checked):

> http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/

A traceroute to tigger.uic.edu fails after 31-35.gw.uic.edu
(128.248.246.174).

Lupe Christoph
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