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[linux-security] Re: [RHSA-1999:030-01] Buffer overflow in cron daemon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Olaf Kirch)
Fri Aug 27 03:57:31 1999
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:33:20 +0200
From: Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de>
To: "linux-security@redhat.com" <linux-security@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BEEFF8.AA5CF820@U6G0C3>; from Shaun Hedges on Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 07:24:42PM -0600
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Resent-Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 07:24:42PM -0600, Shaun Hedges wrote:
> I wonder, if this was discovered by another source such as Debian why
> haven't they made it public?
Things like that happen. It's happened to every vendor before.
I don't say that I'm happy with it, but if you lose sleep about it all
you get is feeling quite tired the next day.
Maybe it's not a widely known fact, but in general Linux vendors do
cooperate on security issues. We're sharing security information with
one another.
Olaf
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