On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 13:05:34 -0800, Bill Campbell <bill@celestial.com>
wrote:

>
>Buffer overflows have been around for a long time. Wasn't the Morris worm
>a buffer overflow exploit of sendmail (one of the few *ix worms)?

Not quite. It had 3 attack methods, including invoking the "debug" mode
in sendmail and a buffer overflow in fingerd.

The debug mode in sendmail implies to me that, at that time, people
trusted other Internet users.