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SubjectRe: Attacks bringing my system down!
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 12:08:45PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:

> The finger that comes with Linux is not vulnerable.

<whine type="off-topic">
Linux doesn't come with any user space utilities. Linux == Linus' kernel.
Linux != {RedHat, Debian, SuSE, ...} Linux. There are zillions[0] of different
finger servers out there.
</whine>

> Keep it up to date. Same thing can be said about Solaris, or
> Windows, or any other operating system or distribution. There are a pile
> of update RPM's out there for RedHat 6.0 and a lot of them are security
> related. Get them installed.

If you're really brave and run Debian, just chuck security.debian.org into
/etc/apt/sources.list and run "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" as a cron
job <g>[1]

[0] Maybe a slight exaggeration.
[1] No, I'm not really suggesting this. Always read ChangeLog before upgrading
important system software.

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