Re: [[cobalt-users] Server Hacked?]

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well......

For example, I can send an email to you with about 2,000 characters in the 
subject line.  With some email programs this might just cause a buffer 
overflow, and allow those 2,000 characters to execute as code, deleting 
your / partition.

Can this happen?

You wouldn't want me to tell, would you <smile>?

Yes, things like this happen all the time, but I made this one up.

Jeff

At 12:19 AM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
> While speaking in general terms here...if no one has shell
> access except the admin (and/or root) how can one hack a
> system if they can't telnet into it, or access it through
> the shell being only the admin & root are the only ones
> having shell access?

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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>