1995-09-28 - Re: NIS library code exposure (Unix network exposure)

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From: cort <cort@ecn.purdue.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-09-28 06:13:18 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 27 Sep 95 23:13:18 PDT

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From: cort <cort@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 95 23:13:18 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: NIS library code exposure (Unix network exposure)
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Message-ID: <199509280613.BAA21957@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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[....]

> Do you have any daemons that run as root and do networking? Are you
> sure that all of them check the length of the host name before passing
> it to gethostbyname?

[....]

On Linux:
ping [huge host name] works
ftp [huge host name] works
finger [huge host name] works
nslookup [huge host name] ... CRUNCH (Segmentation fault)

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• 1995-09-28 (Wed, 27 Sep 95 21:02:43 PDT) - NIS library code exposure - Phil Karlton <karlton@netscape.com>
  • 1995-09-28 (Wed, 27 Sep 95 23:13:18 PDT) - Re: NIS library code exposure (Unix network exposure) - cort <cort@ecn.purdue.edu>
    • 1995-09-28 (Thu, 28 Sep 95 00:11:51 PDT) - Re: NIS library code exposure (Unix network exposure) - cort <cort@ecn.purdue.edu>