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Re: RFP9903: AeDebug vulnerability


From: subs () DYNSOL COM (Joe Melhado)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 17:43:16 -0400


At 02:24 PM 10/5/99 , David LeBlanc wrote:
One other thing to consider is that when user processes crash, they can
sometimes create a user.dmp file, which like UNIX-style core files can
sometimes contain information useful to an attacker.  There is a way to
turn this off, but I don't recall what it is at the moment.

Control panel / system / startup shutdown
Clear the "Write debugging information to" checkbox

Joe


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