RE: [DNS] Possible Security Breach at Melbourne IT

From: Ginger Fish <ginger-fish§scifi-art.com> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:16:31 +1100 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Sat Sep 09 2017 - 22:00:05 UTC

Sure mate, i can be mistaken ( sometimes ) , so can you explain what
happened maybe ?
why the security breach and why are our Melbourne IT buddies so silent ?

Ginger "Rogers" Fish
(now going to the toilet if you'll excuse me )

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Archer [mailto:rha&#167;juggernaut.com.au]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 5:09 PM
To: dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au
Subject: RE: [DNS] Possible Security Breach at Melbourne IT

At 4:45 PM +1100 1/3/02, Ginger Fish wrote:

>using php3 if i am not mistaken that is quite old indeedie and full of
>backdoors and exotic bugs

You are indeed mistaken. PHP 3.0.18 with the patch released earlier
this week contains no known exploitable vulnerabilities.

And as for a "backdoor"... simply ludicrous. It would be impossible
to hide a deliberate vulnerability in an open source package.

 ...R.

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