Easy Security Check?

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2 total messages Started by Adam Carheden Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:00

#189

Author: Adam Carheden
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:00

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Okay, I'm going hog wild now that I can have all my users validated via
my NT box.  I installed IMAP, but then I remembered reading about a Red
Hat/IMAP security hole.  I checked CERT, and it doesn't apply to me (I
think), but it made me nervous.  Does anyone know a good security FAQ,
one with a quick step-by-step list of stuff to do to check common
security holes?

-- 
Adam
carheden@cnhp.colostate.edu

Re: Easy Security Check?

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Author: Mike
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:00

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adamc@cnhp.colostate.edu (Adam Carheden):
> Okay, I'm going hog wild now that I can have all my users validated via
> my NT box.  I installed IMAP, but then I remembered reading about a Red
> Hat/IMAP security hole.  I checked CERT, and it doesn't apply to me (I
> think), but it made me nervous.  Does anyone know a good security FAQ,
> one with a quick step-by-step list of stuff to do to check common
> security holes?

For not extremely current fixes, check out
http://www.redhat.com/support/updates.html.  If you really want to be on top of
the game, you'll probably want to subscribe to the Bugtraq mailing list (see
securityfocus.com).  I found this offered a little more information than I
needed though (they need a bugtraq-linux list).  That imap vulnerability is
really old, I think you'd have to have a <4.2 redhat release to be vulnerable.

-- 
Mike Grandin

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