Re: Just the kind of news we needed...

1999-07-13 Thread Pedro A M Vazquez
Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 11:23:42PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:41:32PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote: > > > > http://thc.pimmel.com/ > > > > > > > I actually found the article a very good source of documentation on > > > programming loadable modules for FreeBSD. Granted, I

Re: Just the kind of news we needed...

1999-07-13 Thread Frank Nobis
Doug Rabson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Scott Michel wrote: > > > > > If you haven't /.'d today, there's a news article purporting that > > > FreeBSD can be exploited via kernel modules: > > > > > > > > > h

Re: Just the kind of news we needed...

1999-07-12 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:41:32PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote: > > > http://thc.pimmel.com/ > > > > > I actually found the article a very good source of documentation on > > programming loadable modules for FreeBSD. Granted, I'm not sure of it's > > accuracy, but it was a worthwhile read for so

Re: Just the kind of news we needed...

1999-07-12 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Scott Michel wrote: > > > If you haven't /.'d today, there's a news article purporting that > > FreeBSD can be exploited via kernel modules: > > > > > > http://thc.pimmel.com/ > > > I actually found the article a ver

Re: Just the kind of news we needed...

1999-07-12 Thread David E. Cross
> > http://thc.pimmel.com/ > > > I actually found the article a very good source of documentation on > programming loadable modules for FreeBSD. Granted, I'm not sure of it's > accuracy, but it was a worthwhile read for someone like myself who has > only coded LKMs for Linux. Very interesting.

Re: Just the kind of news we needed...

1999-07-12 Thread mestery
Hi, On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Scott Michel wrote: > If you haven't /.'d today, there's a news article purporting that > FreeBSD can be exploited via kernel modules: > > > http://thc.pimmel.com/ > I actually found the article a very good source of documentation on programming loadable modules for F

Re: Just the kind of news we needed...

1999-07-12 Thread David E. Cross
> If you haven't /.'d today, there's a news article purporting that > FreeBSD can be exploited via kernel modules: > > > http://thc.pimmel.com/ I did a quick read of that, I don't see how the system is being exploited at all. All of their tricks need to be able to load a kernel module in order

Re: Just the kind of news we needed...

1999-07-12 Thread Dennis Glatting
I don't understand. If you have to be root to load a kernel module then don't you have complete control over the box anyway? If so, you can replace the kernel and all the MD5 checksums and check code isn't going to do you a bit of good. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Just the kind of news we needed...

1999-07-12 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Yup, and if you read [EMAIL PROTECTED], its old news *shrug* On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Scott Michel wrote: > If you haven't /.'d today, there's a news article purporting that > FreeBSD can be exploited via kernel modules: > > > http://thc.pimmel.com/ > > > > -scooter > > > To Unsubscribe: se

Just the kind of news we needed...

1999-07-12 Thread Scott Michel
If you haven't /.'d today, there's a news article purporting that FreeBSD can be exploited via kernel modules: http://thc.pimmel.com/ -scooter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message