“A busy week. Debian issued over a half dozen advisories. Red
Hat, Conectiva, Caldera, Mandrake and ImmunixOS also issued fixes
(I guess they didn’t want to feel left out). Root hacks were found
in a number of packages, icecast; and buffer overflows and format
string attacks in a number of other programs (doesn’t anyone
proactively audit code?). Also, several neat new tools released.
Maybe one was used against Microsoft?”
“We lead off with general advisories and exploit code, then move
to vendor advisories. Most items appear in alphabetical order. If
we’re missing a Linux vendor’s advisory, please tell us – ditto for
any Linux-related security alerts. The long strings of hex in front
of package names are MD5 signatures.”