[plug] More security alerts

[Adam Hewitt]

Debian has released the same advisory so it must be another widespread 
exploit...

Adam

On 05/12/2003, at 9:01 AM, James Devenish wrote:

> FYI, Gentoo have released security advisories regarding an exploitable
> heap overflow in rsync 2.5.6 and the compromise of "one of Gentoo's
> rsync rotation servers" (in combination with the Linux brk 
> vulnerability
> that was mentioned in a Debian-ish thread on this list).
>
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