Sendmail package version weirdness
Hi all. I took preventative measures to protect my exploitable sendmail
until I could get the new package installed on my mail server (running
Debian Stable). I did the usual sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get
upgrade but wasn't seeing the new package.
A little bit of investigation showed the problem. The version I was
running (exploitable) was 8.12.3-7woody so when I tried to upgrade to the
newer fixed version (8.12.3-6.6) it ways always seeing this as an older
version & failing to install it.
Was there any particular reason that this newer fixed version has a
version number the makes it look older than the exploitable version?
Surely this will make life harder for people wanting to upgrade since the
normal apt0-get method will fail. Was it just a mjessup with version
numbering? :) If it was I'd suggest the fixed sendmail be re-issued with
a higher version number to fix the problem.
Thanks again, must have been a busy few days for you :)
Cheers,
Rob
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Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert@timetraveller.org, zzbrock@uqconnect.net
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