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SecurityNewsA wealth of secure distribution projects. Last week we reported on the Secure Linux project, and mentioned Kha0s as well. With another addition this week, there are now three different efforts underway to create a secure Linux distribution. They are (stealing from Rik van Riel's descriptions here):
Security Reportsipopd 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. The Debian project has issued an updated package which fixes the problem; installing this fix is probably a good idea.UpdatesFixes 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.Caldera has issued security updates for the kdebase and dump packages for OpenLinux 2.2 (the dump one also applies to 1.3). Upgrades are, as always, recommended. Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh |
June 10, 1999 |