Amazingly dumb remark about Linux

[Octavian Rasnita]

Maybe, I don't know, I am not an expert in security, but take a look at
www.astalavista.com and you will see more links about how to "Crack Linux"
Teddy,
orasnita at home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cecil H. Whitley" <cwhitley at ec.rr.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 5:11 AM
Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux


> Hi Teddy,
>
> > Do you know that there are security features for Windows also?
> > I am not talking about Windows 9X systems, of course.
> > I am using Windows 2000 and you can set an NTFS partition with more
rights
> > for each folder or file than under Linux.
> > You can log in as another user with less rights to delete or edit files
> and
> > a virus will have the same rights like you, like in Linux.
> I must disagree with this statement.  There is a well-known vulnerability
in
> NT/2K that allows you to gain local admin priviledges by writing a
specific
> value to a specific memory location.  It is fairly well documented and
most
> sites that deal with exploits for M.S. os's should be able to provide the
> location and sample code to actually exploit the flaw.  M.S. released a
> patch, but it just shifted the memory location, which was found again.
> Bottom line, as long as they use a memory flag that can be accessed by
"user
> space" programs (to use the unix/Linux term) they will continue to be
> insecure against anything with "local" access.
> Cecil
>
>
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