Re: PRINCETON STUDENTS FIND HOLE IN INTERNET SECURITY SOFTWARE

• To: sameer <sameer@c2.org">sameer@c2.org>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
• Subject: Re: PRINCETON STUDENTS FIND HOLE IN INTERNET SECURITY SOFTWARE
• From: "Peter Lipp" <plipp@iaik.tu-graz.ac.at>
• Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 21:21:40 +0100
• In-Reply-To: sameer <sameer@c2.org> "PRINCETON STUDENTS FIND HOLE IN INTERNET SECURITY SOFTWARE" (Nov 6, 7:54am)
• References: <199511061554.HAA06559@infinity.c2.org>

On Nov 6,  7:54am, sameer wrote:

> The holes they found exist only in the alpha release of HotJava. The
> beta release, which is the version found in the widely-used Netscape
> Navigator 2.0b1J is not vulnerable to these attacks.

If so, whats the relevance?
(Btw. I did not know that Java is regarded as beeing a security
software :-)


Peter



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