Re: flexfax: Recent faxsurvey cracking attemptsy

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 11:09:54AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > 
> > Over the last week, I've had several attempts to exploit the faxsurvey
> > security hole on my machines from various places: Chicago, France, etc.
> > Has anyone else experienced this lately?
> > 
> > Matthias? When is the next release scheduled, or is there an updated and
> > secure "faxsurvey" script to use?
> 
> I've no deadline for a next patch level. Regarding the faxsurvey
> script I'ld like to remove it from all distributions until someone
> else writes a secure one.

Fair enough. Perhaps a security patch to remove this, placed with the
HylaFAX source code?


			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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