From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 04:38:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E6616A4CE; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 04:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailbox.univie.ac.at (mailbox.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB4843FA3; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 04:37:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from l.ertl@univie.ac.at) Received: from wireless (adslle.cc.univie.ac.at [131.130.102.11]) hB4CbIIe648562; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:37:19 +0100 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:37:20 +0100 (CET) From: Lukas Ertl To: Peter Wemm In-Reply-To: <20031203234849.7238C2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> Message-ID: <20031204133520.A748@korben.in.tern> References: <20031203234849.7238C2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-DCC-ZID-Univie-Metrics: mailbox 4246; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Watch out for security on your machines and exploits! X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 12:38:12 -0000 On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Peter Wemm wrote: > Please take EXTRA care to watch your mirrors for 'funny stuff' and make damn > sure that you're fully up todate with patches. > > Being a cvsup*/ftp*/etc mirror means that you're going to be scanned and > probed. Especially now. (I'm cc'ing ports@ on this.) Since the gentoo hack was obviously made through a vunerable version of rsync, I ask if it's possible to update the rsync port to the new version. regards, le -- Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Vienna University Computer Center Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 University of Vienna http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/