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Re: Who should I report source audits too?



On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:48:05AM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:16:23AM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> >   I've recently started downloading and auditing some of the package
> >  sources of random packages which are installed upon the Debian servers
> >  at my workplace; with a view to looking for security holes.
> I think that this is a very valuable work.  Thank you!

Agreed.

> >   Out of the three packages that I've examined thus far I've found one
> >  package to be wonderfully written, one to be remotely exploitable[1]
> >  and one to crash with a little bit of environmental tweaking[2].

You should contact the maintainer of the affected package.  If they do not
respond, feel free to contact me personally.

-- 
 - mdz



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