[techtalk] Latest deb of Exim?

[Kath]

Well I ran Nessus and it said that my version of exim was vulnerable to
several attacks.

Your way worked, thanks, I got exim updated.  I hate being a walking
security hole :|

- Kath

----- Original Message -----
From: "ktb" <ktb at nixnotes.org>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Latest deb of Exim?


> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:00:32PM -0400, Kath wrote:
> > I'm running a rather old version of exim (hence vulnerable) and was
wondering where I could find an updated .deb of it.
> >
> > The latest release is 3.22 and I only have 3.12-10.
> >
> > I tried apt-get upgrade and specifically apt-get install exim but
neither worked.
> >
> > Anyone have an independent deb or can it be found in unstable or
testing?  (I try to stay away from those two as every time I install a
package from them, something catastrophic happens).
> >
>
> Are you positive your version is vulnerable to whatever whatever you
> think it is?  If you have a security line in your /etc/apt/sources.list
> and run -
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get upgrade
>
> or maybe better -
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get -u dist-upgrade
>
> It should apply security patches.
>
> If you are sure you need to upgrade put this line in your sources.list
> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>
> Run -
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get -b source exim
>
> That will build a deb from testing source which is 3.22-4 right now
> according to -
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
>
> It may or may not work.  It may or may not be more secure.  Remember to
> comment out the testing line when your though.
> hth,
> kent
>
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