SANS has written a good paper discussing the problem in great detail. It is available in the Network Security section of this newsletter. This week advisories were released for licq, sgml-tools, openssh, kerberos, vim, joe, and eperl. The vendors include Conectiva, Immunix, Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE, and Trustix. Please take the necessary time to patch your system.
Security requires persistence. . . .