RE: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !
WELL, i'm might have been somewhat too eager to spark a discussion ... the
thing i'm wondering/confused about is that the 'worm' infects only redhat
systems, according to this article at least ... strange eh ?
i only now had the time to read the securityfocus report, and yes indeed all
linux's with these versions are vulnerable.
anyway, good to know i turned of my machine this morning :)
J.L.
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From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:pbrutsch@tux.creighton.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:00 PM
To: Joris Lambrecht
Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> <<The Register.url>>
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16168.html
Anything that runs the vulnerable versions of those programs is
vulnerable, including Debian. The key is to keep up to date with security
"patches" so that you aren't running the vunlerable versions of those
programs.
Problems like this will only affect those systems that aren't being
maintains (through lack of time, administrator cluelessness, or whatever).
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