Re: CERT Advisory CA-97.23 - rdist

Alex (garbanzo@HOOKED.NET)
Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:18:18 -0700

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> > > CERT* Advisory CA-97.23
> > > Original issue date: September 16, 1997
> > > Last revised: --
> > >
> > > Topic: Buffer Overflow Problem in rdist
> >
> > OpenBSD does not have this problem. None of the versions of rdist
> > distributed are setuid or setgid.
>
> NetBSD no longer has suid versions of rdist either.

Neither does FreeBSD, hence only _old_ versions of FreeBSD that probably
have suid rdist were listed.

- alex