full-disclosure - Re: 18th anniversary of Internet worm a.k.a. Morris worm

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Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:21:37 -0800
From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar@...evco.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, "morrisworm.com" <worm@...risworm.com>
Subject: Re: 18th anniversary of Internet worm
 a.k.a.	Morris worm

Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> I have to conclude that before that, buffer overflows weren't even well
> known *inside* the security community, much less outside in the wider
> programming community.

They were known and exploited by 1972, in at least some communities.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/ande72.pdf
Pages 44 and 45.
http://osvdb.org/blog/?p=77

					BB

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