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Falling Apart at the Seams
Kathleen Ellis and Jon Lasser, SecurityFocus 2000-09-04

Last month's Brown Orifice program opened a backdoor to an insecure future. Can open source save the day?

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How many ways can one article be wrong? 2000-09-08
Charles Miller
Brown Orifice is caused by two bugs in the Java implementation in Netscape. One of them allowed untrusted bytecodes to accept socket connections from places other than the originating host. The other allowed untrusted bytecodes to access files on the local filesystem.

One of these bugs originated...

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