Re: bootpd remote vulnerability

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John McDonald wrote:

> I checked out some operating systems, and determined that freebsd, and
> the linux distributions that I checked (slackware and debian) were not
> vulnerable to remote code execution.

Is Linux not vulnerable for some systemic reason, or because the distributed
bootp doesn't have the vulnerability?

Thanks,
    Crispin
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