Unqualified Postings

From: ediat_private
Date: Mon Nov 01 1999 - 17:31:20 PST

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    Hey,
    
    Is Bugtraq the right forum to report stupid
    overflows in yet another shareware win95 mail/ftp
    server, fetched from huge commercial crapware
    repositories like download.com / shareware.com / others?
    
    Everyone can download the newest software, connect
    and look what happens when you send 7321 a's
    -- voila, the next advisory to Bugtraq is done.
    
    Companies who pretend to do security research
    (like ussr) should do better than that (at least
    they switch their advisory template every second
    time).
    
    Where's the security risk? If the software is rarely
    used, if no exploits are widespread, why bother
    informing the security community about some buffer
    just because it's too small.
    
    Add an exploit if you want to gain popularity -
    I personally do not encourage such postings here.
    
    Edi
    



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