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Security Linux News for Jun 15, 2001
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ZDNet: Opening closed minds to open source (Jun 15, 2001, 20:54)
Open Source Development Network Vice President Richard French
offers this column on the benefits of open source software: "After
all is said and done, what's buried under all of Microsoft's
anti-open source FUD is its own little secret: The Redmond Empire
is quite happy to fund open source development when it suits its
purposes."
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Zero-Knowledge Says Future Plans for Open Source To Be Determined (Jun 15, 2001, 18:27)
A spokesman for Zero-Knowledge has replied to questions
regarding whether his company plans to continue to provide the
source code to new versions of its products in the wake of its
discontinuation of a Linux version and the move from free-of-charge
downloads to a pay-only model: a shift not only in development
methodology but business models.
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ZeroKnowledge Ends Linux Versions of Freedom Internet Privacy Suite (Jun 15, 2001, 14:57)
ZeroKnowledge, producers of the Freedom Internet Privacy Suite,
have announced that they're discontinuing Linux support due to low
interest in their Linux offerings and a "strong customer
preference" for Windows. It also appears (though company spokesmen
didn't answer definitively as we prepared this for posting) that
the change in availability may also signal a move away from the
open source availability of the product.
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Immunix OS Security Advisory: sysklogd (Jun 15, 2001, 13:52)
"The Linux kernel logging daemon klogd distributed in the
sysklogd package can be forced to quit if it receives a null byte
in a log message from the Linux kernel. These updates have applied
a patch from roessler at does-not-exist dot org to fix this
problem."
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Immunix OS Security Advisory: fetchmail (Jun 15, 2001, 13:30)
"Fetchmail, as shipped with Immunix OS 6.2 and 7.0, contains a
buffer overflow in the handling of headers. StackGuard will prevent
exploits from granting privileges; however, denial of service
attacks are possible."
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