O’Reilly Network: Insecurities in a Nutshell: Twig, Midnight Commander, and More

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 8, 2000

“Welcome to the Insecurities in a Nutshell security column, an
overview of new Unix and open source security-related advisories
and news. Problems this week include arbitrary code execution in
Twig, new symlink attacks, a hidden control code attack on Midnight
Commander, and a LANGUAGE attack on glibc.”

“Twig, a popular web mail system that was once named Muppet, has
a vulnerability that can lead to the execution of arbitrary code on
your web server. There is a problem with the virtual hosting setup
in Twig that can allow an attacker to cause a remote file to be
loaded and executed. At this time there does not seem to be an
official fix for this problem….”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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