[H-GEN] Debian v Mandrake

[Bradley Marshall]

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On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:37:07PM +1000, Bradley Marshall wrote:
> > .. and most of which are application specific.  Its been
> > quite a while since I've seen something for *nix that
> > specifically targetted an OS, rather an an application.
> Hrm? The flaws are application specific, but don't most of the exploits
> need to be specific to the kernel ABI as well, so they can, eg, call
> exec("/bin/sh") ?

Sure, but its still a problem with the application, not the OS.
Flaws that are specific to an OS are rare.

Thanks,
Brad
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