Well I ran Nessus and it said that my version of exim was vulnerable to several attacks. Your way worked, thanks, I got exim updated. I hate being a walking security hole :| - Kath ----- Original Message ----- From: "ktb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [techtalk] Latest deb of Exim? > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:00:32PM -0400, Kath wrote: > > I'm running a rather old version of exim (hence vulnerable) and was wondering where I could find an updated .deb of it. > > > > The latest release is 3.22 and I only have 3.12-10. > > > > I tried apt-get upgrade and specifically apt-get install exim but neither worked. > > > > Anyone have an independent deb or can it be found in unstable or testing? (I try to stay away from those two as every time I install a package from them, something catastrophic happens). > > > > Are you positive your version is vulnerable to whatever whatever you > think it is? If you have a security line in your /etc/apt/sources.list > and run - > # apt-get update > # apt-get upgrade > > or maybe better - > # apt-get update > # apt-get -u dist-upgrade > > It should apply security patches. > > If you are sure you need to upgrade put this line in your sources.list > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > > Run - > # apt-get update > # apt-get -b source exim > > That will build a deb from testing source which is 3.22-4 right now > according to - > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > It may or may not work. It may or may not be more secure. Remember to > comment out the testing line when your though. > hth, > kent > > -- > From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted > First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke > > > > _______________________________________________ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
