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From: Rainer Groesslinger <scandium@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Security Problems: xmule, lmule
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:44:05
Message-Id: 200308271544.03896.scandium@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Security Problems: xmule, lmule by Patrick Lauer
1 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 00:47, Patrick Lauer wrote:
2 [snip]
3 > short summary:
4 > all emule, lmule and xmule versions are vulnerable to buffer
5 > overflows including execution of malicious code.
6 >
7 > xmule 1.4.3 (portage current) is very vulnerable.
8 > xmule 1.5.6 (latest from xmule website) does not fix all known
9 > vulnerabilities.
10 >
11 > Please discourage the use of lmule and xmule until fixed versions are
12 > available.
13 [snap]
14
15 I added xmule-1.6.0 to the tree minutes ago, so just re-sync.
16 It fixes all known security issues (at least according to un-thesis) and
17 I removed all older versions which had security exploits.
18
19 --
20 Rainer Groesslinger
21 http://dev.gentoo.org/~scandium/