US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-081A -- Sendmail Race Condition Vulnerability (fwd)

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Thu Mar 23 18:02:28 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 07:33 -0500, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> Patch? Why patch when one can build the new release using a spec file?
> It works for me.

Because we want to impact how the system works as little as possible.
Usually this means backporting patches into existing packages as to not
change functionality.  Unfortunately that wasn't possible with this
release, so we had to use the RHEL2.1 packages, and modified FC2
packages.  See the test announcement for details.

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Jesse Keating RHCE      (geek.j2solutions.net)
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