“If you’re running Linux, feel good this week. A really nasty
virus (mostly comprised of batch files) for Windows is floating
around that dials up “911” (emergency services here in Canada and
the US). On the other hand a pretty nasty bug has been found in
ircii which is shipped with almost all distributions, there is a
buffer overflow in the dcc routines potentially allowing an
attacker to gain access.”
“We lead off with general advisories, then vendor advisories
(distributions, then any major software ones), then mailing list
related traffic, any interesting tidbits and then the tip of the
week. Most things are 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.”