Paul Brewer wrote:
> "Joe Yong" <flyingbuick_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:6ad26002.0301281103.3948163f_at_posting.google.com...
>
>>Hi all,
>>Given the fiasco with the slammer virus thing, our customers are
>>reviewing their activities and log on their databases as far as
>>security fixes and bugs are concerned. My boss wants us to help by
>>compiling a list of all known security issues (bugs or by design) to
>>help our customers with that. Anybody out there already have such a
>>list or know where I can get one? We're already comparing our stuff to
>>metalink articles but given that our internal use of the DB is quite
>>small (we're a tiny group), many of the issues might not be in our
>>records cos they don't impact us.
>>
>>Would appreciate any pointers on this. Thanks much.
>
>
> Tell them to use a grown up Operating System and Database.
> (OK, I'm not entirely serious, but... ;-)
>
> Regards (and sorry this doesn't help),
> Paul
Just for grins, I did a search for various O/S on CERT
(
http://www.cert.org). The numbers are (I did *not* look thru all hits
to see which were more or less "bad"):
Search for 'windows' produced 853 hits
Search for 'linux' produced 752 hits
Search for 'solaris' produced 486 hits
Search for 'hp-ux' produced 241 hits
Search for 'oracle' produced 214 hits
Search for 'sybase' produced zero hits
Search for 'sql server' produced 2,199 hits
And the winner is...
Received on Tue Jan 28 2003 - 16:19:01 CST
