[Mimedefang] Truncated connections causing multiple resends onincoming mail

[John]

At 12:26 PM 5/4/2007, you wrote:

<snip>

>You might want to review this:
>http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/04/18/risk-report-two-years-of-red-hat-enterprise-linux-4/
>if you are talking about staying up to date with security-related updates. 
>I can't find the reference now but I think someone mentioned that if they 
>repeated the study for RHEL3 there would only be about 2 more critical 
>flaws in its additional 2 year life span.

Here is the key:

"The subset of vulnerabilities affecting the Linux kernel mostly lead to 
one of two consequences: either a local unprivileged user can cause the 
machine to crash, or a local user can gain privileges. "

The key word in the above comment is "local" user.  I there are no local 
users, you have no kernel issues.  And since it is not windows, updating 
other items for external issues is a "No reboot: situation <G>  I have 
older kernels then mentioned above running right now that have no external 
security issues and if it ain't broke, don't fix it!


>Note that with CentOS, you get essentially the same thing with free access 
>to the updates with just a 'yum update' command - with the tradeoff that 
>they take a few hours longer to become available.
>
>--
>   Les Mikesell
>    lesmikesell at gmail.com
>
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