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July 2001, Week 4

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Mark Wonsil <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:10:23 -0400
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New Telnet hole discovered.

You can read the details at(ends in .html):
http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO62543,00.html

The article says that a hacker can cause a core dump which allows the
intruder to  take total control of Social Security, cause rolling gray-outs
in California, add cabinet posts, raise Enron's stock price, increase chair
moisteners in sector 7-G, give a man a fish, and turn readers of the
Federalist papers into Democrats.  A patch is available at the Free BSD web
site.  It is not known in this affects HP9000-L.

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