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Date:      Thu, 4 Dec 2003 07:10:13 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, ports@freebsd.org, hubs@freebsd.org
Subject:    Re: HEADS UP!  Watch out for security on your machines and exploits!
Message-ID:  <20031204151013.GA80231@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031204132303.GB347@straylight.m.ringlet.net>
References:  <20031203234849.7238C2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> <20031204133520.A748@korben.in.tern> <20031204132303.GB347@straylight.m.ringlet.net>

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On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:23:03PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:37:20PM +0100, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Peter Wemm wrote:
> >=20
> > > Please take EXTRA care to watch your mirrors for 'funny stuff' and ma=
ke 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.
> >=20
> > (I'm cc'ing ports@ on this.)
> >=20
> > 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 versi=
on.
>=20
> I sent a patch to update rsync to 2.5.7 to Oliver Eikemeier, the port
> maintainer, earlier today.

Because of the severity of this, I put on my portmgr hat and updated
it myself a few minutes ago.  It should be retagged for 5.2.

Kris

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