On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:40:13PM -0500, Sergio P.Korlowsky wrote:
> Forgot to attach this in the previous message... Sorry! :o)
Ok... read the message, Sergio. Kurt says that our advisories are
significantly improved, which implies we are making them. You must
not be subscribed to security-announce otherwise you would have seen
all of these announcements (with the exception of LIDS). Every other
update was announced on security-announce.
Before you start ragging on us, you might want to ask the question of
where we announce this stuff. As I said before, cooker is not the
appropriate place to post these things. That's what
security-announce is for.
To everyone else you is *not* subscribed to security-announce, if you
are concerned about security on Mandrake (and you should be), I
strongly suggest everyone go to the website and use the webform to
subscribe to security-announce and security-discuss.
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>
> Weekly Linux Security Roundup
> - A busy week - LIDS, Netscape, Mailman, NFS, kon2, gpm and several other
> programs were found to contain security problems, some of them very nasty. A
> few weeks ago I slagged Mandrake Software. Well, I'm not going to apologize,
> but I will say this: Mandrake has significantly improved its security
> advisories. They are now issued regularly, contain solid information in
> regard to the problem and how to fix. My remaining complaint would be that
> they have no vendor site for updates, but rely on third-party mirrors. This
> is somewhat mitigated by the update tool, but I still feel that vendors
> should not rely on the good will of third parties to distribute fixes.
> Reliability aside, there are trust issues to be considered.
> http://securityportal.com/topnews/weekly/linux20000807.html
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