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Re: Installing PHP4



On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 04:13:00PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:

> Silly me! I thought it would be named mod_ssl!
> No hits on debian.org for anything by that name!

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=mod_ssl&searchon=all&subword=1&version=stable&release=all

I went to packages.debian.org, typed "mod_ssl" into the search box and
checked "descriptions".

> No, I don't care about version numbers per se, but between mod_ssl for
> Apache 1.3.26 and the current one for Apache 1.3.28 there have been
> several bugfixes and one security fix, so why would anyone install the old
> one that has bugs and security problems, especially when the package is a
> security feature???

You mean this security fix?

dijkstra:[/tmp/libapache-mod-ssl-2.8.9] head debian/changelog 
libapache-mod-ssl (2.8.9-2.1) stable-security; urgency=high

  * Non-maintainer upload by Security Team
  * Applied patch from Joe Orton to fix cross site scripting through
    hostnames (CAN-2002-1157)

 -- Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>  Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:05:37 +0200

Which is included in Debian woody?  This is another version-number
misunderstanding which is addressed by the security team FAQ:

http://www.debian.org/security/faq#version

-- 
 - mdz



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