vulnerability of Linux

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Nov 28 20:17:17 UTC 2005


On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:13:39PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> [snip]
> >These are the actions you must take 
> >- Understand the next points as habits, not as simple actions.
> >- Have updated systems! update your system daily. Yum must program your
> >yum or apt updates to run at least daily.
> Respectfully, this sounds like a recipe for disaster. I update
> my system about once a month.

What disaster do you anticipate? Is it worse than the one that could happen
due to an unpatched vulerability disclosed 29 days earler?

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Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>
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