[Full-disclosure] 18th anniversary of Internet worm a.k.a. Morris worm

[Blue Boar]

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> I have to conclude that before that, buffer overflows weren't even well
> known *inside* the security community, much less outside in the wider
> programming community.

They were known and exploited by 1972, in at least some communities.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/ande72.pdf
Pages 44 and 45.
http://osvdb.org/blog/?p=77

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