Partly to address those concerns, Rik van Riel has created the secure distributions mailing list which is intended to be a means of communication between the projects. Security Reports ipopd problems. The ipopd POP daemon distributed with Debian 2.1 turns out to have a problem that can, if properly exploited, allow access to remote persons. Updates Fixes for the 2.2 denial of service problem have trickled in from some of the distributions. Here are announcements from Debian , Mandrake , Caldera , SuSE , and Red Hat .
Upgrades are, as always, recommended.