Is this time for a talk on openvpn???
On Mon, September 19, 2005 12:28 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> Well, you know what they say about assumptions, don't you Volker? ;-) > > Yes :) > >> So that means he was out of date - current-release version for >> openssh is 4.2p1. > > This doesn't mean all that much. Some distros backport security fixes > for good reason, though gentoo isn't so likely to be one of them. If > there had been a known security problem, every vendor would have > released a new openssh (it is a major core component), but this didn't > happen. So either it's in the pipeline, or the newer version is not > relevant to security. Or there is a problem which is so far undisclosed, > in which case most everyone has a serious problem. > > Of course if there were security updates and Nick didn't install them, > then it's a good example of why it's a bad idea to not keep up with the > updates for internet-exposed services. > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in > header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
