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Re: [TCLUG:5786] Channel 5..



Quoting Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net):
> I was told that the "hacker" they interviewed was 14 years old.. representing a
> large community of people, not something for a 14 yearold...
> 
> btw.. as far as system cracking/exploiting.. 
> 
> a bugtraq annoucement (with code) was posted affecting large number of
> slackware/redhat wu-ftpd servers.  anonymous, or real user accounts.. allowing
> shell access.  proftpd was not listed as being affected, nor the latest debian
> wu-ftpd packages.

I saw this too. Had Redhat released a security patch rpm for it yet?

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