Re: What up with www.debian.org ?
Hello
Roberto Sanchez (<rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>) wrote:
> Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
>> Jerome posts:
>>
>>>>What happens to www.debian.org ?
>>
>> Someone has cracked all the servers of the Debian Project. There
>> has been a severe security mishap and guys should uninstall all
>> stuff downloaded and installed in the past 2 days. Please do
>> not apt-get anything right now! Please wait till an `official'
>> release happens!
>>
> I just updated my Woody box yesterday, and these are the pakcages that
> were updated:
>
> [UPGRADE] bsdutils 1:2.11n-4 -> 1:2.11n-7
> [UPGRADE] console-data 1999.08.29-24 -> 1999.08.29-24.2
> [UPGRADE] debianutils 1.16 -> 1.16.2woody1
> [UPGRADE] gnupg 1.0.6-3 -> 1.0.6-4
> [UPGRADE] mount 2.11n-4 -> 2.11n-7
> [UPGRADE] procps 1:2.0.7-8 -> 1:2.0.7-8.woody1
> [UPGRADE] shorewall 1.2.12-1 -> 1.2.12-2
> [UPGRADE] util-linux 2.11n-4 -> 2.11n-7
> [UPGRADE] util-linux-locales 2.11n-4 -> 2.11n-7
> [UPGRADE] zlib1g 1:1.1.4-1 -> 1:1.1.4-1.0woody0
>
> The odd thing is that they downloaded from stable, instead of
> stable/updates. I also downloaded chkrootkit from the upstream site,
> and it came out clean. Should I worry yet?
Looks to me more like there is a new revision of Woody (there is a
Debian3.0r2 directory on the ftp server). So maybe the servers just
have problems with the load right now.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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