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Date:         Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:17:21 +0200
From: Roman Drahtmueller <draht@SUSE.DE>
Subject:      SuSE: userhelper/usermode
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

Hi there,

SuSE distributions do not ship with the usermode package that contains the
userhelper program.

Therefore, SuSE distributions are not vulnerable to the recently published
attacks that target the usermode package.

Regards,
Roman Drahtmüller,
SuSE Security.
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