-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Markus Gaugusch wrote: | Comparing the complexity of the kernel with a simple thing like an FTP | daemon is not really what I call good argumentation ... Ok, apache vs proftpd, or sendmail vs proftpd, or pptpd vs proftpd, or mysql vs proftpd, or named vs proftpd? Is that argumentation? :) | Also, I can't remember any _remotely_ exploitable bug in kernel, which is | again something different compared with an ftpd. | Markus Hmm, what you call "_remotely_" kernel bug? You think, that do_brk() or memremap() not a remotely kernel bug? You wrong, unfortunately! Apache + PHPBB(or other message board with bug's) + do_brk() = voila, _remotely_ and exploitable kernel bug! - -- Boris B. Zhmurov DialogueScience, Inc. Technical department. 40 Vavilova St., Moscow, 119991, Russia Tel.: (+7-095) 137-0150, 135-6253 HTTP://www.antivir.ru FTP://ftp.antivir.ru "wget http://bb.dials.ru/bb_public_key.pgp -O - | gpg --import" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAI3jJmEQixi5w37YRAjiaAJ4xQTqfQdzpNri7c6uB5FyO0txLHQCeK33O hKkTcQDnOYkS/pcdh57WHOc= =mTLS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----