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Re: what's up with security?



According to Petr Cech:
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:27:24PM -0700 , Joey Hess wrote:
> qpopper is safe IIRC recent discusion. or the fix shold be installed yesterday
> Should this go to slink also?

The qpopper bug is not very serious. It makes it possible to send fake
emails to someone, even if that person has heavy filtering (for example,
a copy of the ILOVEYOU virus). That is all. There is no shell- or root
exploit involved.

Mike.
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