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Re: [R] [O-T] rsync security bug on Debian potato - o que é "upstream"?



Oi pessoal-

	Esta mensagem é dua em uma:

	1) Aproveito para dar o recado de segurança.
	2) O que o cara quis dizer com "upstream"

	Valeu
	[ ]s
	Henry



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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 12:31:52 -0600
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
To: hzi@uol.com.br
Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] [O-T] rsync security bug on Debian potato
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On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:08:03PM -0200, hzi@uol.com.br wrote:
> Hello-
> 
> 	This is off-tpoic, but of interest.
> 	There's a remote exploit bug on rsync, that was posted on Linux Today.
> 	I post this here because apparently it hasn't been mentioned (yet) on the
> 	Debian security advisory. The package list is not updated either.

Because is appears that the upstream patch is not addressing the problem.

> 	Perhaps this is what happened to CRAN when it was cracked...
> 	Maybe you admins at CRAN would want to contact the debian-security list.

I appreciate your concern, but I don't really think that this is the forum
for Debian-only questions.

Dirk

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