Hi Moritz,
* Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-04 22:30]:
> severity 454167 important
> thanks
> 
> Nico Golde wrote:
> > Package: sing
> > Version: 1.1-15
> > Severity: critical
> > Tags: security
> > 
> > Please have a look at:
> > http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484472
> 
> The assertion by the security researcher above is incorrect, both
> the packages in Sarge and Etch have a debconf question, which warns
> prominently about the dangers of a setuid sing binary and which
> defaults to no.

Yes I saw this when I tested this bug, however I disagree 
here because the dialog just says:
"allows non-root users to send spoofed ICMP messages from 
your machine.". This does not say anything that every user 
could get root access with this.
Kind regards
Nico
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