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SubjectRe: Solaris 2.6 and Linux
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> Free software is _more_ supported. If you report a serious Solaris security
> bug (as I did) and Sun basically tell you "how nice - go away" you can go
> to another support contractor. The GPL guarantees they have equivalent access
> to sources and you can even give them the source you got from the last
> contractor. Sun took 18 months to fix that bug, and only when I started
> posting really fun exploits of it to bugtraq..

There are other serious bugs that are several years old that sun cant be
bothered to fix. Eg did they fix the bug yet where you can rsh to a
solaris box, do an ioctl on fd 0 and fiddle with interfaces?

-Dan


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