On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Chuck Yerkes wrote: > Just glad Sendmail got a heads up to coordinate the 20 vendors > and their patches for that problem.
They locked most of the linux distros out of that loop. The first the Slackware guys knew about it was when they were mailed a heads-up about the vulnerability being published. While they had a patched version out within hours, there were exploit kits specifically targetting Slackware already circulating the next day.
