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[cobalt-users] Security update



Haven't got an announcement about this from the mailing list, so I'm
sending this myself.

Security: ntp Update 4.0.1 

HTTP

 RaQ3-All-Security-4.0.1-10125.pkg

(http://ftp.cobalt.com/pub/packages/raq3/eng/RaQ3-All-Security-4.0.1-10125.pkg)
 Posted: May 23, 2001

FTP

Point your FTP client to ftp://ftp.cobalt.com

 Size: 385,671 bytes

 The current version of ntp was found to be susceptible to buffer overflow
remote root exploits. This package corrects this with updating ntp to xntp
3-5.93-14. 

 MD5 Check Sum: 99edbe03f39e882e132a2afdf7858c0d 

  Best regards,
     shimi [mailto:shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]


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