Re: Debian Kernel security status?

2006-04-21 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Jan Luehr wrote: > Well, looking back at woody, kernel updates appear infrequently and not that > often. I can remeber that we asked for a kernel-update but nothing came > around. I can't speak for the stable security team; but I suspect it was a lack of

Re: postfix in qmail out proftpd in pureftpd

2006-04-21 Thread Florian Weimer
*> I found you in a search and thought you could help. I am unable to get in > touch with the webmaster at qmail. If you can answer this question it would > be > greatly appreciated. Many thanks for your help. diane > > "We have been receiving mail from several people being sent under differe

Re: Security status of mozilla-* packages

2006-04-21 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Holger Mense wrote: >> the Mozilla team has recently released new versions of Firefox, Mozilla >> Suite, Thunderbird, which also fix several security issues >> (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html) >> >> How far are these issues affected by the Debian packages? Will

Re: Security status of mozilla-* packages

2006-04-21 Thread Greg Norris
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:02:20AM +0100, James Davis wrote: > Actually, the release of Thunderbird which fixes these vulnerabilities > (1.5.0.2) has not completed testing and is not a 'release' yet. The > vulnerability report is confusing, in that it implies that Thunderbird > 1.5.0.2 should be av

Re: Debian Kernel security status?

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Jan Luehr wrote: Btw. Why do a lot of DSAs care about oldstable, while kernel-updates avoid woody? Because the kernel build process for woody is even worse than for sarge. Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Debian Kernel security status?

2006-04-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Jan Luehr wrote: > Btw. Why do a lot of DSAs care about oldstable, while kernel-updates avoid > woody? Because building kernels is hard for Sarge and very hard for Woody. I seem to recall Joey asking for volunteers to help work on kernels a good fe