[Sussex] Windows flaws

[nik at wired4life.org]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 07:45:54PM +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
> Sorry, but which versions of Linux does this affect?
Dunno could be 
	gnu linux
	hurd linux

But he mentioned BSD so possibly
	Open BSD
	Free BSD
	Net  BSD


The real poser is .... how quick  do you imagine a patch will appear to
fix this vuln. and how long will the MS take ? 


Further US Open Source Admins will be able to do a lot more to respond
to the Vuln rather than just having to disable the Network Interfaces


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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Crowhurst" <fyremoon at fyremoon.net>
> To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:26 PM
> Subject: [Sussex] Windows flaws
> 
> 
> > Another day, another critical windows flaw has been announced.
> >
> > This time the flaw is in another piece of code stolen from the BSD team, I
> > should imagine. RPC, Remote Procedure Call protocol.
> >
> > It affects every version of Windows (except ME for some bizarre reason :P)
> >
> > vnunet has the story:
> > http://www.vnunet.com/News/1142394
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