Linux Today SECURITY LETTER FOR JUNE  5, 2000

Latest Security News for the Linux and Open Source Community.

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TODAY'S LINUX SECURITY NEWS:

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LANSYSTEMS.COM: SECURE SHELL 1.2.27 SETUP GUIDE

"Who would want to use a program that sends your passwords and
everything you type to the remote host in plain text? Not I."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://www.lansystems.com/tutorials/vinces_guide_to_ssh.txt

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LINUX.COM: WHO'S SNIFFING YOUR NETWORK?

"As we have seen, sniffer attacks are difficult to detect
and thwart because sniffers are passive programs. They don't
generate an evidence trail (logs), and when used properly,
they don't use a lot of disk and memory resources."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://www.linux.com/security/newsitem.phtml?sid=11&aid=8921

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LINUXSECURITY.COM: LINUX SECURITY WEEK, JUNE 5TH 2000

"Greetings, issue number 5 is already here! We would like to
take a moment to thank our readers for all of your support. The
response has been tremendous for both our newsletter and website,
LinuxSecurity.com If you have any suggestions regarding the
website, newsletter, or anything else, please let us know! We
are here to serve the open-source community; your voice should
be heard."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/forums_article-800.html

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ROOTPROMPT.ORG: RESPONSE TO THE FEATURE ON IPV6 VS. SSL

"Reto Haeni's paper on IPv6 and SSL explains a number of
fundamental differences between the two protocols but fails
to communicate why they are different. It is also quite out of
date (it appears to have been written in 1996) and as a result
some of its facts are no longer true. The paper is misleading
(though clearly not intentionally) due to its age and its failure
to address the differences between SSL and IPv6 adequately."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=507

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DEBIAN SECURITY ADVISORY: PACKAGE: MAILX

"The version of mailx distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
(a.k.a. slink), as well as in the frozen (potato) and unstable
(woody) distributions is vulnerable to a local buffer overflow
while sending messages. This could be exploited to give a shell
running with group "mail."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=22862

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DEBIAN SECURITY ADVISORY: PACKAGE: SPLITVT

"The version of splitvt distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
(a.k.a. slink), as well as in the frozen (potato) and unstable
(woody) distributions, is vulnerable to a local buffer
overflow. This could be exploited to give a shell running
as root."

COMPLETE STORY:
http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=22864


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