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> cross your fingers nobody would find yet another wuftpd buffer overflow wuftp was responsible for the popularization of format-string attacks, which were mag
by stevekemp 8y ago
> cross your fingers nobody would find yet another wuftpd buffer overflow
wuftp was responsible for the popularization of format-string attacks, which were magical at the time.
We all knew about buffer-overflows, and when it was explained format-string attacks were obvious, but it was the first time I'd seen a genuinely new class of software attacks.
Happy memories!