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Re: default MTA for sarge



Op wo 16-07-2003, om 01:35 schreef Milan P. Stanic:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:13:46PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Philip Hazel is pedantic about dropping root privileges ASAP, and
> > generally codes quite securely.
> 
> Wietse Venema does not?

On the contrary. I posted that paragraph because Craig said 'exim is
insecure', not because I think it's coded 'more' or 'less' secure than
postfix.

> > Also, I've tried searching the archives of debian-security-announce
> > for the word 'exim', and haven't found anything.
> 
> Debian Security Advisory DSA 097-1                     security@debian.org
> http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
> January 3rd, 2002
> 
> Package        : exim
> Vulnerability  : Uncontrolled program execution
> Problem-Type   : remote vulnerability
> Debian-specific: no 

Obviously the search pages need fixing :-)



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