Re: Secure wu-ftpd for Testing?

2001-11-30 Thread Christian Kurz
On 30/11/01, David Ehle wrote: > Is the wu-ftpd in testing secure? It seems to be 2.6.1 a stinker. Not so far. But calling a software where the source and the fix are available, so that you can build a fixed version on your own is inappropriate. Especially if you are using Win98 and Netscape, both

Re: Secure wu-ftpd for Testing?

2001-11-30 Thread Christian Kurz
On 30/11/01, David Ehle wrote: > Is the wu-ftpd in testing secure? It seems to be 2.6.1 a stinker. Not so far. But calling a software where the source and the fix are available, so that you can build a fixed version on your own is inappropriate. Especially if you are using Win98 and Netscape, bot

Re: Secure wu-ftpd for Testing?

2001-11-30 Thread David Ehle
Thanks Curtis, I know the maintainer has put together a fixed version for Potato/stable, I am wondering if he has had time to do the testing yet, or if we rollback to the testing one or what. I'm just hoping that rollback won't be a dependency nightmare... the stable version is wu-ftpd_2.6.0-6

RE: Secure wu-ftpd for Testing?

2001-11-30 Thread Howland, Curtis
The article I read about it on the Register... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23082.html "The hole affects thousands of users of virtually every Linux release. Because of the wide implications, Core, working with CERT, and, at on

Re: Secure wu-ftpd for Testing?

2001-11-29 Thread David Ehle
Thanks Curtis, I know the maintainer has put together a fixed version for Potato/stable, I am wondering if he has had time to do the testing yet, or if we rollback to the testing one or what. I'm just hoping that rollback won't be a dependency nightmare... the stable version is wu-ftpd_2.6.0-

RE: Secure wu-ftpd for Testing?

2001-11-29 Thread Howland, Curtis
The article I read about it on the Register... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23082.html "The hole affects thousands of users of virtually every Linux release. Because of the wide implications, Core, working with CERT, and, at on