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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx...
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Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim) |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx... |
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Thu, 8 May 1997 08:38:43 -0400 (EDT) |
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > in under a week or so it is a golden opportunity to get people to upgrade.
> > > Many many people will see the CERT advisory, including sysadmins with 2.4,
> > > 2.5 and other prehistoric releases.
> >
> > I haven't followed this thread very closely, but if MY ISP moves the
> > Lynx temporary file directory to my home directory, I'll have to stop
> > using Lynx because my home directory has about 100K free...
>
> And if we don't your ISP if they have a clue will delete it entirely for
> good. At least if we fix the default you can choose to be personally
> insecure by changing the tmp dir via the environment variables..
If we change the default to be an unpredictable name, would this
be a low enough risk?
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RE: LYNX-DEV [Fwd: BoS: A vulnerability in Lynx (all versions)], Brian Tillman, x8425, 1997/05/07
Re: LYNX-DEV [Fwd: BoS: A vulnerability in Lynx (all versions)], Scott McGee (Personal), 1997/05/07
- Re: LYNX-DEV [Fwd: BoS: A vulnerability in Lynx (all versions)], Larry W. Virden, x2487, 1997/05/07
- LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Klaus Weide, 1997/05/07
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Alan Cox, 1997/05/08
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim), 1997/05/08
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Alan Cox, 1997/05/08
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx...,
Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim) <=
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Jonathan Sergent, 1997/05/08
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Alan Cox, 1997/05/08
Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Matthew Kelly, 1997/05/08
Re: LYNX-DEV Re: ...vulnerability in Lynx..., Larry W. Virden, x2487, 1997/05/08
Re: LYNX-DEV [Fwd: BoS: A vulnerability in Lynx (all versions)], Foteos Macrides, 1997/05/07
Re: LYNX-DEV [Fwd: BoS: A vulnerability in Lynx (all versions)], Brian Tillman, x8425, 1997/05/08
Re: LYNX-DEV [Fwd: BoS: A vulnerability in Lynx (all versions)], Scott McGee (Personal), 1997/05/08