Re: Mandrake & CERT advisories

From: Bill Unruh (unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 03/05/03 

From: unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
Date: 5 Mar 2003 03:02:55 GMT

Vlad Tsyrklevich <root@127.0.0.1> writes:

]Because Mandrake announces it's own stuff on BugTraq? Because they never
]asked? Because they don't want people to see if they are vulnerable or
]not?

Because none of us know what you are talking about??
Mandrake is a Linux and thus suffers from the problems of linux.
Mandrake does not use a number of programs (eg sendmail) which have had
bugs.

(PS, CERT is a US service, and Mandrake is a French company. It is
perhaps not approached by CERT?)

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