HEADS UP! Watch out for security on your machines and exploits!

[Lukas Ertl]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Please take EXTRA care to watch your mirrors for 'funny stuff' and make damn
> sure that you're fully up todate with patches.
>
> Being a cvsup*/ftp*/etc mirror means that you're going to be scanned and
> probed.  Especially now.

(I'm cc'ing ports@ on this.)

Since the gentoo hack was obviously made through a vunerable version of
rsync, I ask if it's possible to update the rsync port to the new version.

regards,
le

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