At 20:45 +0200 1999-09-17, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
OK, a bug in cron has recently produced a root exploit. What a crappy software, it should be moved to contrib.
There's no evidence that cron has another one just waiting to happen.People on linux-security-audit *have* said that about proftpd, and that was said before the most recent security hole was discovered. Rather proving them right, wouldn't you say?
-- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>