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Security Linux News for Sep 07, 2001
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LinuxSecurity.com: Linux Advisory Watch - September 7th 2001
(Sep 07, 2001, 21:45)
"This week, advisories were released for xinet, windowmaker,
sendmail, fetchmail, xli, telnetd, rmuser, NetBSD kernel, and fts.
The vendors include Conectiva, NetBSD, Mandrake, and SuSE. Mandrake
users are especially encouraged to update this week because there
is such a great number of advisories."
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ZDNet: WinXP: an OS for Linux lovers
(Sep 07, 2001, 18:45)
"The day that we've all feared is soon to arrive: Microsoft has
finally made an operating system that Linux users will love:
Windows XP."
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The Register: Linux Trojan spotted in the wild
(Sep 07, 2001, 15:21)
"Eric Chien, chief researcher at Symantec's antivirus research
centre, does not expect the virus to spread, principally because it
lacks the self-replication characteristics that made Code Red and
the Lion worm (which affected Linux servers) such nuisances... That
said users may wish to consider using Qualys' free vulnerability
test (registration required). Antivirus vendors are in the process
of updating their signature definition files to detect the
Trojan."
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VNUNet: Linux users warned of new Trojan danger
(Sep 07, 2001, 09:26)
"The so-called Remote Shell Trojan spreads through email as well
as replicating itself across the infected system. It installs a
backdoor which listens for incoming connections on UDP port 5503 or
higher, and allows remote attackers to connect to, and take control
of, an infected system."
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Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - mod_auth_mysql (Sep 07, 2001, 06:42)
"mod_auth_mysql" is an authentication module for apache which
authenticates users against a MySQL database. RUS-CERT[3]
discovered a vulnerability[1][2] in several Apache authentication
modules which use SQL databases to retrieve user information. This
vulnerability allows a remote attacker to change the query that the
module sends to the SQL server and potentially circumvent the
authentication process.
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