Fw: [ale] Linux: Secure and Limits? - yet further off topic

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, John Mills wrote:

> 
> I looked at CERT and found a recommendation that wu-ftp-2.50 suffers the
> same buffer-overflow vulnerabilities as -2.4, and recommending upgrade to
> -2.6x. I can't find sources for this - in fact, wuarchive had -2.4. I got
> -2.50 from the redhat 'updates/6.0' directory at GIT, yesterday. Does
> -2.6x exist, and is it buildable? CERT (or a link from CERT) noted that
> -2.6x is "slightly incompatible." What is exactly the state of things?

Wash. U. has long since abandoned maintaining wu-ftpd.  The official home
page now is <http://www.wu-ftpd.org/> which, if nothing else, is worth
looking at just for the weird combination of banner ads at the bottom of
their page.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
                                              chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu