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Re: OpenBSD Advisory



At 4:04 PM +0100 2/1/01, Jan Johansson wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:23:52PM -0500, eric jackson wrote:
>>  this was *NOT* posted by someone affiliated with OpenBSD.
>>  Be assured of that.
>>
>
>The feeling i get is that somone has rooted a box becuase of a bad
>chpass, sending this here in revenge of the long discussions about why
>OpenBSD does not post 2345 format string advisories.

Any particular reason you think a box was r00t3d? Just looks like a 
forged "From:" header to me.

-Kit