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Story: Debian attacker may have used new exploit

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Posted by: Paul Cupis (Tuesday 2 December 2003, 1:28 PM)

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> The exploit was carried out on Debian software
> running on Intel-based hardware, while a system
> using Sun hardware was not affected, leading some
> to guess that Sun software is not affected by the
> possible exploit.

What is this supposed to mean? The "system using Sun hardware" was auric.debian.org, which was not running Sun software. It was running Debian 3.0 (Woody).

cite: http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=auric

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