[plug] Mandrake - printing

[Oliver White]

What would be really neat would be an extension to APT which would scan
your packages and let you know of any known vunerabilities in your
software.

Christian wrote:

> Leon Brooks wrote:
> > Spice also pointed out that there are zero Debian-specific cracks on
> > rootshell.
>
> Hmmm... this isn't really a sensible thing to say since it leads people
> to believe that Debian is in some way secure -- most of the
> Linux-related security problems discovered affect Debian as much as Red
> Hat (et al).  There are very few "Debian-specific" vulnerabilities
> (probably about as many as there are Red Hat-specific problems) and it
> would be worrying if there were!  But this certainly doesn't make Debian
> intrinsically more secure than any run-of-the-mill Linux.  There are
> lots of exploits on rootshell.com which could be used on insecure (i.e.,
> badly managed) Debian systems... (of course, rootshell isn't really what
> it once was -- it sort of lost credibility since it got broken into last
> year...).  If you really want to check the security of your system then
> I would advise you to check out the vendor's security pages (eg,
> http://www.debian.org/security/) or a site like www.securityfocus.com.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian.