also : http://www.angelfire.com/sk/stackshield/download.html
On June 11, 2004 16:10, Dave Wilson wrote: > I have a situtation where a consumer level hardware firewall/router has > reached it's capability limits, and we are not experiencing unacceptable > performance. This firewall/router is used primarily for filtering and > DNAT for a group of servers. We are looking at alternatives. > > Since the machines behind the firewall/router are linux boxes, I have > suggested using iptables. Based on previous experience with machines > being exploited, there is some concern that using Linux will leave us > vulnerable to OS exploits. > > I don't follow the security domain that closely, but I don't think linux > has had many recent remote OS access exploits, if any. I know that user > space daemons are another matter, and are frequently exploited, and I also > know the linux kernel has had other types of exploits, like DoS. So, has > linux had any remote OS access exploits? Is there a website with such > records? > > Thanks, > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
