Re: [Nolug] FEEDBACK: Security blame games

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 00:34, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> At 09:12 PM 9/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net> writes:
> >
> > > Advanced email software like Evolution has had flaws, and these flaws
> > > will be attacked more and more as there are more Linux end-users.
> >
> >What sort of exploitable flaws does Evolution have? How would the
> >exploitation of those flaws be similar to the exploits for Outlook if
> >everyone ran Evolution?
>
> I just randomly googled for a link and quickly found:
>
> http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8350/
>
> Notice the third issue listed, which mentions a potentially exploitable,
> old, and hopefully is-now-patched bug. If this bug had been exploitable (I

>From that same web page: "Update to version 1.2.3."

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