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> Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no> writes:
>
> > .. but at least fixes appear a lot faster for linux.  That alone
> > don't usually leave enough timespan for a large-scale exploit.

Someone forget bind and rpc.statd worms of about 6 months ago?

Or, the exploitability of ntp?

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