Professor D.J. Bernstein of the University of Illinois at Chicago has notified the Unix security community that his students have found no fewer than forty-four security vulnerabilities in Unix.

Bernstein gave the students for his MCS Computer Science (Unix) course the assignment to find ten previously undiscovered security holes in Unix, and boy did they deliver!

Despite the discovery, however, one of Bernstein’s students reports on Slashdot that most of the class failed, and that they themselves expect to fail despite averaging As on the exams. Wow, he must be a tough grader!

The Unix programs found to have security holes include…

[Unix Security Holes! 44 of ‘em!, continued/a>]