Upgrade 5.0d for 9825

Carl S. Gutekunst csg at pyramid.pyramid.com
Tue Dec 11 10:17:45 AEST 1990


In article <963 at garnet.Sbi.COM> millman at garnet.Sbi.COM (Phillip Millman) writes:
>I agree about the trade offs and I'm the first to advocate security on UNIX
>machines (after being burned by the Morris Worm).

Just beating the long dead horse.... :-) Note that neither the "Morris worm"
nor any of the other "worm-supportive" bugs in sendmail, rmail, or uucp were
affected in the slightest by the C2 changes in OSx 5.1. These were all cases
of software that, by design, runs in a trusted and privileged environment, but
was too trusting of its data. 

(Those worm bugs were fixed in OSx 5.0, BTW.)

<csg>



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