On Thu Jan 18, 2001 at 12:34:47PM +0000, Michael Brown wrote:

> > See details here:
> > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-4508359-0.html
> > Internet worm squirms into Linux servers 
[...]
> 
> According to the Mandrake Security Announcements page (which is, I think,
> two links away from the URL given above), Mandrake has not been vulnerable
> since July 7 2000.

Neither has RedHat.  Unfortunately, too many sysadmins don't pay
appropriate attention to security announcements.  How embarrasing to
find their systems taken down by a worm that takes advantage of a
vulnerability fixed six months ago!

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