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This weeks Security Alerts
In this weeks Security Alerts, we look at buffer overflows in sudo, SuSE's dip, Scotty's ntping, and UnixWare's statd; a flaw in FreeBSD's rfork(); two vulnerabilities in Check Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1 firewall products; a new version of the rpm package manager; two vulnerabilities in Macromedia's ColdFusion Server; a minor Apache bug; a brute-force attack against SuSE's AXP Alpha xdm utility; and more on the cfingerd remote vulnerability.
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