Re: [Sheflug] Sheflug Meeting / AccessSpace NIS

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

Richard Lowe writes:
 > Lion exploits a BIND bug, not RH specific at all from what I've read
 > (may be wrong tho).
 > Ramen exploited bugs in rpc.statd, LPRng, and... something I cant
 > remember. may have been RH specific tho.
Erm, I think that the Ramen was RH specific - although I can't imagine
why, IIRC some if not all of the bugs present were kicking about in
bog standard releases of the daemon(s).
Dunno - I've slept since then, I've have to look at redhat.com again.

 > The point being (apart from the stupid fd leak) non of them were really
 > Redhats fault (IIRC), you can blame them for starting a stupid number of
 > services my default, but it seems most distributions do that.

Amen.

Apparently (from what I can see at redhat.com) Fisher/Wolverine -
RH7.1 Beta:

* Workstation installs are network-secure (services are off by default)

Which is a start - at least the number of zombie machines out there
might drop slightly.

Still - looks like server installs will be as bad as usual.
It's a start, I guess.

Baz.
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