Re: Any work around for this FreeBSD bug/DoS ?

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From
Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Date
17 Aug 1999 18:21:01
Subject
Re: Any work around for this FreeBSD bug/DoS ?
Message-ID
4.1.19990817212048.0526b150@granite.sentex.ca

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>I've been using a mechanism that prevents the running the arbitrary
>executables on my systems. I require a flag bit to be set for an
>executable to be run -- so if script kiddie uploads or creates
>a binary executable it wont run, unless I approve it by setting the
>flag. At the moment I let shell scripts slide which will leave you
>vunerable to perl -- but that could be easily changed.

Interesting concept, but I guess it would get only the dumbest script
kiddies. Also, more and more exploits seem to be released on perl to make
them 'cross platform compatible'.

---Mike
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