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Re: Sendmail package version weirdness



On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:58:49PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
>
> > Was there any particular reason that this newer fixed version has a
> > version number the makes it look older than the exploitable version?
>
> Simple: it doesn't.  The version in stable is 8.12.3-4, and the version on
> security.debian.org is 8.12.3-6.6.  Your package came from someplace else.

Hi Matt.  Thanks for clearing that up.  FYI I located the origin of the
version I was using:

http://people.debian.org/~cowboy/sendmail_8.12.3-7woody_i386.changes

Rob

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