Re: [off-topic] Hackers exploit Linux mail ?worm?

George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Tue, 4 May 1999 23:16:41 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 4 May 1999, Paul Vojta wrote:

> | All versions of the University of Washington IMAP server prior to the final
> | (frozen, non-beta) version of imap-4.1 that support SASL server-level
> | authentication are vulnerable. The vulnerability affects all University
> | of Washington IMAP4rev1 servers prior to v10.234. Also, any v10.234 server
> | that was distributed with Pine 4.0 or any imap-4.1.BETA is vulnerable.
>
> The article indicates that Red Hat distributed a fix.
>
> Debian is currently distributing IMAP version 4.4.
>
> So, which linux distribution is still shipping an old version of IMAP?

And, I might add, it is NOT a Linux bug AFAIK, it is an IMAP bug and other
operating systems running that version of IMAP would be affected as well.

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