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LinuxSecurity.com: Linux Advisory Watch – January 26th 2001

[ Thanks to Benjamin
D. Thomas
for this link. ]

“This week, advisories were released for icecast, MySQL, kdesu,
glibc, splitvt, micq, sash, wu-ftpd, jazip, tinyproxy, squid, php,
apache, exmh, ipfw, ip6fw, XFree86, crontab, and bind. The vendors
include Conectiva, Caldera, Debian, FreeBSD, Mandrake, Red Hat,
SuSE, and Trustix.”

“It has been a very active week in Linux security. Most of the
focus has surrounded the Ramen worm, but other problems have
surfaced. Among then, a few vulnerabilities found may result in
remote root compromises. With this, it is extremely important to
verify which packages you have installed and update
accordingly.”

“Linux Advisory Watch is a comprehensive newsletter that
outlines the security vulnerabilities that have been announced
throughout the week. It includes pointers to updated packages and
descriptions of each vulnerability.”

Complete
Story

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