Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-10 Thread Daniel Rychlik
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Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-10 Thread Daniel Rychlik
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RE: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-09 Thread Tim Uckun
I agree with Tim Uckden's comments - we don't need bleeding edge, but we also don't need some-obscure-whizzo-package-on-104-obsolete-hardware-architectures.deb holding up basic things like Apache, PHP, Perl, Mod_Perl, MySQL etc. We would be over the moon to have a mini-stable that only contain

Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-09 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:58:38PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Raymond Wood wrote: > >but I would really like to see either: > > a) woody receiving security patches as soon as sid and potato; > > or > > b) no woody. > > >From a security viewpoint b) is the only option, and

RE: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-09 Thread Jeff
09 May 2002 01:30 To: debian-security@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: possible hole in mozilla et al At 15:38 2002-05-08 -0600, Tim Uckun wrote: >The situation right now is that for production you run an ancient system >or cross your fingers, hold your breath and run unstable. Coming from

Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-09 Thread David Stanaway
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 01:22, Tim Uckun wrote: > I am not arguing for any change in the policies for determining what is > stable and what is not. My feeling is (and I admit I haven't done any > studies) that stable gets delayed sometimes due to obscure packages having > bugs or obscure platform

Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-09 Thread Tim Uckun
Coming from a corporate environment I hardly feel that stable is ancient. With most commercial operating systems the quality control seems so poor it takes a few years before we feel comfortable moving to a new release. But with Debian I can point to the unstable-testing-stable system and my

Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-08 Thread James Morgan
At 15:38 2002-05-08 -0600, Tim Uckun wrote: The situation right now is that for production you run an ancient system or cross your fingers, hold your breath and run unstable. Coming from a corporate environment I hardly feel that stable is ancient. With most commercial operating systems the qu

Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-08 Thread Tim Uckun
At 10:58 PM 5/8/2002 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Raymond Wood wrote: >but I would really like to see either: > a) woody receiving security patches as soon as sid and potato; > or > b) no woody. From a security viewpoint b) is the only option, and we have always said so. W

Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Raymond Wood wrote: >but I would really like to see either: > a) woody receiving security patches as soon as sid and potato; > or > b) no woody. >From a security viewpoint b) is the only option, and we have always said so. Wichert. -- __

Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-08 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
This bug has been fixed in Mozilla upstream and will be included in the 1.0 release. You can dig in Bugtraq for more info. -nicole At 15:26 on May 8, Robert Millan combined all the right letters to say: > > Hi, > > Just noticed this advisory, stating a remote vulnerability > in mozilla: > >

Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-08 Thread Raymond Wood
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:51:51PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans imagined: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:26:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > http://sec.greymagic.com/adv/gm001-ns/ > > > > It claims to affect 0.9.7+ but on 1.0 all it does is > > crashing my browser. > That bug was fixed in the vers

Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-08 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:26:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > http://sec.greymagic.com/adv/gm001-ns/ > > It claims to affect 0.9.7+ but on 1.0 all it does > is crashing my browser. That bug was fixed in the version of mozilla from sid, but *not* woody. Woody appears vulnerable and had probably

possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-08 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, Just noticed this advisory, stating a remote vulnerability in mozilla: http://sec.greymagic.com/adv/gm001-ns/ It claims to affect 0.9.7+ but on 1.0 all it does is crashing my browser. Please CC to contact me, not subscribed. -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running fr