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Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1



Gilbert, Joseph writes:
> Well, the version number of sendmail in stable (just one example) seems
> to be pretty old - 8.12.3.  There are known exploits (buffer overflows,
> etc.)

The fixes were _backported_ to 8.12.3 by Debian security.  This closes the
holes without the changes in functionality and interfaces (and new bugs)
that come with new upstream versions.
-- 
John Hasler



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