Re: Lion Worm

[Shawn Yarbrough <shawn@nailstorm.com>]

Thanks.  This worked great.  It upgraded my BIND to version
8.2.3-0.potato and also upgraded a bunch of other important-looking
packages.  Version 8.2.3 seems to be immune to the Lion Worm so I feel
better now.  I did a 'dselect', Update, Select, Install instead of the
'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' that you suggested.  I'm used to
'dselect'.  I assume the results were the same.

Why did I have to do this at all?  Wouldn't it make sense to have
security.debian.org in the sources.list file by default?  I had assumed
that by running dselect occasionally that I was getting all the latest
urgent security patches.  At the very least I think there is a user
education problem here.  Either that or I'm just dense.

Shawn Yarbrough
shawn@nailstorm.com



John Hasler wrote:
> 
> Shawn Yarbrough writes:
> > Can anybody tell me if Debian's BIND is in danger from the Lion Worm?
> 
> Not if you hsve put
> 
>   deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free
> 
> in your /etc/apt/sources.list and done
> 
>   apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
> 
> recently.
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> John Hasler
> john@dhh.gt.org
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, Wisconsin
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