build-essential

[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 01:36:21PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:57:15PM -0700, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 10:08:20AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > (I still feel uncomfortable with compilers being available on production
> > > machines, and don't think the "marginal amount of extra work for kiddies"
> > > argument is good enough: Worms don't do marginal amounts of extra work. I'm
> > > sure someone's said the same thing about sandboxing scripting frameworks!)
> > 
> > wget http://iamleet.cjb.net/teardrop
> 
> Redirects to a 404 page.

'Twas an example. You compile it somewhere that has a pre-compiled
binary (just statically link it) of an exploit (e.g. teardrop, or
whatever), and run it.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
"The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_,
available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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