SecurityPortal: Weekly Linux Security Digest: 2001/04/09 to 2001/04/15

“I’d like to welcome Progeny to the club. They just put out
the first version of their distribution not to long ago and already
4 security advisories, which is good because it means they take
security reasonably seriously (long term commitment is what
counts, of course, because security is a process that never ends).
In any event they are doing a much better job then several vendors
that attempted to get into the Linux market (*cough*Corel*cough*).
As usual it appears to be a catch up week although SuSE has
mentioned some problems in their sudo, man and NEDit (I wish other
vendors would mention upcoming problems in advance, like SuSE
does).”

“BTW: the thing about rioting IT workers was a joke.”

“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.”

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