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. . . .
This week, advisories were released for slrn, cups, mutt, icecast, imap, sgml-tools, and licq. The vendors include Conectiva, Mandrake, and Trusix. Although this week has been slow, if you are using any of these distributions, please take the necessary time to . . . This week, many of the articles are worthwhile reading. This week, advisories were released for imap, joe, gnuserv, zope, mailx, icecast, cfengine, rwhod, interbase, slrn, Mesa, sudo, sgml-tools, and mutt.