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OMG! The world is coming to an end! UNIX has a security vulnerability!!!

guyver01

guyver01

Lifer
CERT advisory
Washington Post Article

Unix Security Hole In CDE
Administrators of Unix-based systems are being warned that hackers have begun to take advantage of a security hole found some time ago. The CERT Coordination Center says it has received "credible reports" of Sun Solaris systems being compromised by hackers with the help of a vulnerability in unpatched versions of a CDE component. Many systems may have shipped with CDE installed and enabled by default, even if the system operators aren't making use of the graphical desktop itself.

 
Guyver, would you post this in the OS forum? If you don't want to I will . There are a few UNIX zealots in there I would like to have a laugh at/with.
 
What is the Common Desktop Environment (CDE)?

The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is an integrated graphical user interface for open systems desktop computing. It delivers a single, standard graphical interface for the management of data and files (the graphical desktop) and applications. CDE's primary benefits -- deriving from ease-of-use, consistency, configurability, portability, distributed design, and protection of investment in today's applications -- make open systems desktop computers as easy to use as PCs, but with the added power of local and network resources available at the click of a mouse.

 


<< Guyver, would you post this in the OS forum? If you don't want to I will . There are a few UNIX zealots in there I would like to have a laugh at/with. >>



LOL.. sure... i emailed it to all my friends that are unix/linux zealots that wont run "windows because its so security vulnerable, unlike linux" hahahahahaha 🙂

 
I hope you all are kidding..

There are several holes/exploits in *nix systems, difference is, they are open source and get fixed in a matter of seconds... not days as in MS. They are found everyday
 
There are several holes/exploits in *nix systems, difference is, they are open source and get fixed in a matter of seconds... not days as in MS. They are found everyday

Good summary. Holes and exploits in *nix are nothing new.
 
*nix has a lot of buffer overflows. They are just not as public. Look at the statistics and your realize that 40% - 50% of website defacements are Apache on *nix platforms.

An O/S is also only as secure at the administrator wants to make it. A smart W2K admin could secure a W2K server while a dumb *nix admin could swiss cheese the most secure versions on *nix.

Windogg
 


<< they are open source and get fixed in a matter of seconds... not days as in MS. >>



That may be true, but why then does the article indicate hackers have begun to take advantage of a security hole found some time ago. Was this a hole the *nix community decided wasn't bad enough to fix, and someone decided to prove them wrong?

 
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