RE: DB2UDB hack

["Jack Derham" <derhamj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Get off your Bully pulpit!

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:03 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: DB2UDB hack

> From: Joe Pluta
>
> I guarantee they haven't performed a buffer overrun exploit on any native
> i5/OS service, and it's fuzzy statements like "take advantage of these
> leaks" that make me crazy.

Just to be clear, by "they" above, I mean your "benevolent hackers" and not
anybody at IBM's labs.  As I've noted, there's a theoretical possibility
that someone with the skills of Leif Svalgaard and the knowledge of a bug in
an IBM program MIGHT be able to somehow cause i5/OS to execute a data
buffer, but I'm pretty comfortable nobody in the outside world has ever done
so, or will ever do so.

And in case I haven't been crystal clear, I do not include PASE in this
statement.  PASE is not i5/OS, any more than a Linux partition is or Windows
running in VMWare on a Mac is OS X.

Joe