[ale] CRITICAL LINUX FLAW OPENS THE DOOR TO FULL ROOT ACCESS (RHE)

Beddingfield, Allen allen at ua.edu
Thu May 17 13:18:21 EDT 2018


We used to do that with our Windows servers...the lease time was 
low...the DHCP server went down one day...there was chaos shortly 
afterward...

Allen B.

On 5/17/18 12:12 PM, Solomon Peachy via Ale wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:46:12AM -0400, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
>> In the article, they talk about servers and mysql ... who would run
>> those on dhcp? Serious question - who and why?
> 
> In networks I've administered, everything but the DHCP server and the
> core routers has their (static!) addresses assigned via DHCP.
> 
>   - Solomon
> 
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