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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OpenBSD 2.6: at(1) Y2K Fix
08 January 2000
The at(1) command was unable to parse some kinds of dates.
OpenBSD
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OpenBSD: Sparc not Y2K compliant
02 January 2000
A minor problem; the sparc eeprom(8) command is not Y2K compliant.
OpenBSD
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OpenBSD 2.6: Minor problem with the adduser(8) command
02 January 2000
A minor problem in the logging support for the adduser(8) command.
OpenBSD
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Mandrake 6.0: gnomehack
13 December 1999
An exploit (buffer overflow attack) has been found in this package.
Mandriva
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Mandrake 6.1: lpr
13 December 1999
A security hole has been found in the version of lpr shipped with Mandrake 6.1
that could allow use
Mandriva
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Mandrake 6.1: screen
13 December 1999
By default, screen did not use Unix98 ptys (/dev/pts/*), which resulted in its
controlling terminal
Mandriva
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Mandrake 6.1: am-utils
13 December 1999
There is a potential buffer overflow / remote exploit in the am-utils package.
Mandriva
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Mandrake 6.1: bind
13 December 1999
If you are using Linux-Mandrake as a name server, you should upgrade to this
package.
Mandriva
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Mandrake 6.1: kvirc
13 December 1999
This package cures the "!nick ../../../etc/shadow" bug. Understand, it doesn't
allow anymore users
Mandriva
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Mandrake 6.0: kernel 2.2.9
13 December 1999
2.2.x kernel are all affected by a networking security bug.
Mandriva