Re: Securax Advisory 13

[Arturo Busleiman <buanzox () USA NET>]

On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, incubus wrote:

> ============================================================================
> Securax-SA-13                                               Security
> Advisory
> belgian.networking.security
> Dutch
> Affects:        SuSE linux 6.4
> ============================================================================

> II. Impact
> ----------
>
> The impact can be pretty severe, allowing no one to log in.

Tested on Suse linux 5.2 (yes, old, but on-purpose). Not affected.

I ran the program on tty3, then tried to log unto tty4:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
[etcetcetc]I input my username and press Enter here and......
  Password: ******
You have mail.

intra:/home/yo $ uname -a
Linux intra 2.0.33 #2 Thu Dec 11 14:08:32 MET 1997 i586 unknown


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