On: Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:15:04PM -0400,David Boyes Wrote:

} > One of the management types near me is concerned about TCPIP "buffer
} > overrun security exposure" on our ZVM 5.2 Z890 system.
} > Should I be concerned with buffer overrun security exposures?  If I
} > should not be concerned, how would I go about giving comfort to the
} > concerned management types?
} 
} 1) The VM TCPIP stack is not based on the common BSD roots of the Unix
} and Windows TCP implementations. It is not susceptible to attacks based
} on code analysis of the BSD code.

David,
Now you just need to re-write this in manager-speak, so it can be given
to the suits in a language they understand.

:-)

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