LinuxSecurity Contributor - Anthony Pell
Anthony Pell
Anthony Pell is an experienced Linux admin with decades of experience managing Linux systems. He is also an experienced pentester and ethical hacker who enjoys finding and fixing vulnerabilities in open-source software. Anthony loves writing about Linux security-related topics and has contributed content to LinuxSecurity.com for many years.
Education: Pentest Penguin Polytechnic: "Keep Calm and sudo On"
Experience: Experienced Linux Sysadmin, Pentester & Ethical Hacker
Citizenship: USA
Articles From Anthony Pell
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NetBSD: SysV semaphore denial-of-service
29 May 2000
An undocumented system call permits any user process to lock up the entire semaphore subsystem
NetBSD
3 - 4 min read
NetBSD: Exploitable Vulnerability in Xlockmore
29 May 2000
xlock can be manipulated to print the shadow password information
NetBSD
1 - 3 min read
NetBSD: Local "cpu-hog" denial of service
29 May 2000
Untrusted local processes can hog cpu and kernel memory
NetBSD
1 - 3 min read
NetBSD 1.4.2: /etc/ftpchroot parsing broken
29 May 2000
Users listed in /etc/ftpchroot access to files outside their home directory.
NetBSD
1 - 2 min read
Mandrake: kdesu vulnerability
29 May 2000
A vulnerability in kdesud will allow any user to exploit a buffer overflow.
Mandriva
1 - 2 min read
Maths prize could revolutionise encryption
29 May 2000
A £3.6m mathematics competition announced Wednesday could spark a revolution in computer security a
Cryptography
1 - 2 min read
Life in an Era of Cryptographic Abundance
29 May 2000
In the Palo Alto area on June 20th? Xerox PARC is holding a free conference on the abundance of cryp
Forums
14 - 19 min read
Linux Security Week, May 29th 2000
29 May 2000
Greetings! Last week was another active week for security advisories. (Thirteen advisories were is
Forums
1 - 2 min read
Can IPv6 replace SSL?
29 May 2000
Reto Haeni has written this paper that gives a brief overview of the features of IPv6 and discuss it
Network Security
1 - 2 min read
Ruling Could Strip Online Anonymity
29 May 2000
In a ruling that could force anonymous online posters into the open, a Florida judge has ordered Ame
General Security
2 - 3 min read
FreeBSD: krb5 port contains remote and local root exploits.
28 May 2000
Local or remote users can obtain root access on the system running krb5.
FreeBSD
6 - 8 min read
FreeBSD: Local users can prevent all processes from exiting
28 May 2000
An unprivileged local user can cause every process on the system to hang during exiting.
FreeBSD