Re: [TCLUG:479] security is a barrel of fun

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:479] security is a barrel of fun
From: Jon Schewe <jpschewe@usa.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 22:04:19 -0500
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Ben Kochie wrote:
> 
> i have just spent the night doing security bug fixes on a mail/dns server,
> some of the things i have had to fix
> 
> Qualcomm Qpopper, MAJOR security risk.. our system was root-exploited
> because of this pop3 server, use some other kind of pop3 server.

I was just looking back at my system and RedHat uses the IMAP package of
utils, which happens to contain a POP3 server as well.  
-- 
Jon Schewe 
http://tcfreenet.org/~schewe
jpschewe@usa.net

References:
- security is a barrel of fun
  - From: Ben Kochie <ben@intexp.com>

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