Re: What does this mean? (apache compromised account)

From: Joe Feise (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 04/21/05 

Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:17:10 -0700

Dave Uhring wrote on 4/20/2005 16:58:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:25:57 +0000, Ohmster wrote:
>
>
>>I have a redhat 9 machine on a 24/7 ADSL connection that runs apache and
>>sendmail.
>
>
> RedHat 9, a distro for which no updates have been available for a year
> less 10 days, and you put it on a public address?
>

That doesn't matter much. I am running a Redhat 5 installation on one of my old
machines, with the latest 2.0.x kernel and Apache2, Subversion, and Qmail, 24/7
on the Net. You can always update stuff yourself.
So, the version of the distro is pretty much irrelevant. The important thing is
that you act on exploit reports. Read Bugtraq, and update your software.

-Joe
PS. Yeah, one of these days I am going to upgrade the machine, to Debian, or
Ubuntu or something like that...

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