* =?iso-8859-15?Q?Jean-Philippe_Gu=E9rard?= | It seems that both a new kernel version (2.2.16), and a new version | of sendmail have been released to fix a very serious security bug. | | See <URL:http://www.sendmail.org/sendmail.8.10.1.LINUX-SECURITY.txt> | | Shouldn't both sendmail and the current kernel be updated ASAP ?
>From the latest debian-newsletter: * A fix for the capabilities-related local root compromise in kernel 2.2.15 was [21]backported into the Debian package of kernel 2.2.15. -- Tollef Fog Heen This is the unix version of the LoveBug virus and in the spirit of such it depends on the user community to propagate. Please send this message to all of your friends and randomly delete numerous files from your system.