“… we have posted four additional security advisories to our
security web page: three from January that have been available on
our FTP site for some time now (but for one reason or another were
not posted on the security web site), and one that covers the
wu-ftpd security problem that has gotten so much attention
lately.”
“Regardless of the absence of the actual advisories on the web
page, the updated RPM packages themselves (and text files
containing their associated security advisories) have been
available on our FTP site for around a month; basically since the
security advisories were issued.”
“The absence of these advisories from our web page and the
delays in getting the wu-ftpd fix out (which was actually done and
ready for testing on Jan. 29th) are unfortunate…”
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