Security Updates

Announcements

These Announcements are made following the discovery of a security problem with one of the packages supplied with Independence Linux.

The Announcements include details of the problem, and details of a fix for the problem.


Current Security Announcements [Apr 2000]
		- PISA-24-APR-00-005
		    [Backdoor password in Piranha-gui package]
		- PISA-21-APR-00-004
		    [Update in Openldap fixes security hole]
		- PISA-13-APR-00-003
		    [Security problem in gpm-root (part of gpm package)]

Previous Security Announcements 

  	- Jan 2000:
		- PISA-08-JAN-00-002
		    [Two security holes in lpd]
		- PISA-05-JAN-00-001
		    [Security holes created by upgrading as we suggested]
		- PISA-05-JAN-00-000
		    [Security bug in usermode, pam and SysVinit]

	- Nov 1999: 
		- PISA-21-NOV-99-004
		    [Denial of service attacks in syslogd]
		- PISA-18-NOV-99-003
		    [Security problems in WU-FTPD]
		- PISA-18-NOV-99-002
		    [New Netscape packages avaliable]
		- PISA-18-NOV-99-001
		    [Security Problems in bind]
		- PISA-18-NOV-99-000
		    [File access problems in lpr/lpd]

Files

The files come in rpm format, and are currently avaliable via http and ftp. See the individual security announcements for links to the files.

Links

For those interested in the security of your computer, I've started to create a links page which should help you find some more information.

Contact

David Webster is responsible for coordinating the security updates, and for maintaining this web page and the ftp area that contains the patched files. He can be contacted on cog@seul.org. Feel free to contact him should you have any problems or queries with anything related to Project Independence's security.

The announcements, and any correspondence with David will be signed with his PGP key. Information on obtaining his key can be found from here, and is included in the security announcements.

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jfm2@club-internet.fr

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