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Security Linux News for Sep 28, 1999
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PRNewswire: StarBase Announces License Agreement with OpenAvenue (Sep 28, 1999, 19:17)
"Under the terms of the licensing agreement StarBase will
provide its acclaimed StarTeam software to OpenAvenue for
deployment as the key structural technology within OpenAvenue's
comprehensive open-source portal to the software development
community."
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PC Week: PC Week Labs' site gets hacks-and flak (Sep 28, 1999, 18:21)
"As this story went to press, it appeared that a hacker had
found an exploit in the permissions structure of the Common Gateway
Interface scripts running on the Linux box. This appears to be a
good hack."
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ZDNet: Evan Leibovitch -- In search of a really suite deal (Sep 28, 1999, 18:15)
"Point is, Sun's thin-client model is not universally Good. But
it's not universally Bad. By the same token, Microsoft's
thick-client model won't fly or fall for everyone either. Both
approaches have their advantages and their downsides."
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PRNewswire: VA Linux Systems Launches Professional Services Group (Sep 28, 1999, 15:09)
"VA Linux Systems' Professional Services Group will offer its
Linux expertise in five areas: architecture and planning;
deployment and installation; systems integration (including open
source product implementation); performance analysis; and security
consulting."
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BW: Global Effort Solves Elliptic Curve Crypto Challenge... (Sep 28, 1999, 15:00)
"The "ECC2-97 problem" involved a set of nearly 10 to the 29th
points on an elliptic curve chosen by Certicom. The participants
attacked ECC2-97 by calculating 119,248,522,782,547 (well over 10
to the 14th) of the points using open-source software developed by
Mr. Harley."
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PRNewswire: PrivacyX.Com Goes Global With OpenSource Anonymous Browsing Project (Sep 28, 1999, 14:55)
"PrivacyX.Com is offering to the Internet community a tool that
will assist them in retaining control of the privacy that is being
chipped away on the Internet."
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mutt-1.0pre3 released - fixes security problem (Sep 28, 1999, 14:46)
"The reason for immediately releasing this version is a buffer
overflow in the text/enriched handler which can be triggered by
means of suitably-formatted e-mail messages."
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Linux-Mandrake posts updated Gnomehack (Sep 28, 1999, 14:25)
"An exploit (buffer overflow attack) has been found in the
Gnomehack package."
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Linux GNOME exploit (Sep 28, 1999, 14:21)
"Virtually any program using the GNOME libraries is vulnerable
to a buffer overflow attack."
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ext2: libNids and NIDS (Sep 28, 1999, 04:30)
"libNids's ability to defrag IP packets and build up TCP streams
means that it isn't just useful for building NIDS. Having a window
showing you what is going down the network can be a godsend when
you have to debug some network enabled app or reverse engineer some
protocol."
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LinuxPR: Motorola...Group's SLX Series Network Appliance Passes KeyLabs Linux Compatibility Tests (Sep 28, 1999, 00:23)
"Linux-Tested" is an open test program that affords both
hardware vendors and IT departments the opportunity to test and
verify hardware compatibility across multiple Linux
distributions."
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