[olug] OT: security through antiquity

Phil Brutsche phil at brutsche.us
Thu Nov 6 01:08:07 UTC 2008


Obi-Wan wrote:
> Note my recent post about the 'ed' arbitrary execution bug.  I'd bet
> money that the same bug has existed in 'ed' for a decade (or longer),
> but do you think that 10-year-old OS's which suffer from it are going
> to be fixed?

Actually not.

The bug doesn't affect classic 'ed', only the much newer GNU ed
distributed by RH-based distributions.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us



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