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

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

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 16, 2001

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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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