Re: Security problem in C news and INN
Casper Dik (casper@fwi.uva.nl)
Thu, 24 Feb 94 09:54:54 +0100
>Maybe I'm the last person on the planet to realize this..... is it common
>knowledge that there's a *major* security hole in both C news performance
>release, and old versions of INN?
>
>If anyone doesn't know what I'm talking about, then you may want to disable
>newgroup and checkgroups processing from C news (performance release), and
>disable processing of ALL control messages except cancel from INN. Disable
>them <completely>, best with an "exit 0" at the first line of all
>appropriate scripts. Do not attempt to interpret or process these articles
>in any way. Don't do _anything_ with these articles except ignore them.
>This is overkill, but anything more specific would be too much of a
>giveaway.
If you use INN, you can get inn1.4.sec from ftp.uu.net.
It fixes this problem.
I'm not sure that disabling all control messages except cancel
actually works.
Casper