Hey Jiva. Although I don't keep up on the RH stuff, I think I saw
something like this come across the daily Freshmeat batch within the last
week or so. You may want to do a search over there.

Question -- What packages were sploited on their systems? Share with the
rest of us some of the details so that we can all make sure we're up to
date... :)

~Jay


On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 jiva@devware.com wrote:

> 2 count em 2 of my friends running linux discovered tonight their
> machines had been rooted!  And the only reason was because they didn't
> keep their packages up to date.  Does anyone know of a script that'll
> get just the latest security fixes on RedHat?
> -- 
> I think I am an overnight sensation right now!!
> 
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