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Subject: Re: Is postfix vulnerable to the Linux setcap bug?
From: Matthias Andree (madt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 07:39:57 CDT


* Lorens Kockum (lk-pfubigears.solsoft.com) [000608 14:31]:
> It's not a sendmail bug, it's a Linux bug... capabilites are not
> dropped correctly in certain cases.

If you're worried about that, get Linux Kernel 2.2.16 that has been
released a couple of hours ago and install that, it supposedly fixes
the capability security problems.