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  3. October 2007

Re: DB2UDB hack

Lukas Beeler wrote:
i5/OS applications that are network facing and improperly programmed can
still cause security problems on your System i. These are not buffer
overruns, but they can ruin your day just as well.

e.G. a CGI program written in native ILE C that is vulnerable to SQL
injection.

True ... but a OS flaw can (theoretically) be exploited regardless of
what application is running... and it could effect EVERYONE who hasn't
patched it.

Just because some design aspects of i5/OS are foolproof doesn't make it
any more difficult to create insecure applications.

Very true ... security should be a primary concern of everyone deploying
network based applications.

And at least I don't run i5/OS to run i5/OS - I run it to run
applications.

And nobody runs Windows just to run windows ... they run Windows to play
Solitaire. :)

david


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