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Re:This Day in 1988, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Int... by aleks224 on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @03:29AM (#45820728)
So this would be the first stack overflow after the Morris' fingerd one (well, first one that's widely publicized):

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1995/Feb/109

> we've installed the NCSA HTTPD 1.3 on our WWW server (HP9000/720, HP-UX 9.01) and I've found, that it can be tricked into executing shell commands. Actually, this bug is similar to the bug in fingerd exploited by the internet worm. The HTTPD reads a maximum of 8192 characters when accepting a request from port 80.

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