Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:37:20 +0100 (CET) From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Watch out for security on your machines and exploits! Message-ID: <20031204133520.A748@korben.in.tern> In-Reply-To: <20031203234849.7238C2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> References: <20031203234849.7238C2A7EA@canning.wemm.org>
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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/
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