Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (340 mails)

[Vladimir Nadvornik <nadvornik@xxxxxxx>]

On pá 3. dubna 2009, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> Petr Uzel schrieb:
> > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:09:59PM +0200, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
> > > I wonder if the current nmap version for openSUSE 11.1 is capable to
> > > detect Conficker infected machines on the network, or if the latest
> > > version of nmap is required as described in the Linux Journal?
> > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/detecting-conficker-linux-tools
> >
> > The article states that you 'You MUST get nmap-4.85BETA5' (or later). In
> > 11.1, there is nmap-4.75, so it won't work.
> >
> > You have to build it yourself or try RPMs from nmap homepage:
> > http://nmap.org/download.html (Linux RPM Source and Binaries)
>
> What I'm wondering is:
> Yes, obviously that's a new feature but one could argue that it's
> security relevant. Actually not for the openSUSE system but for
> detecting security issues. I'm just ignoring the BETA in the version
> number now but shouldn't a thing like that considered to be updated in
> certain cases even in released openSUSE versions?
> - if the package is a leaf package
> - the update itself has low risk
> - it's not far too much work
>
> Just an idea for consideration.

IMHO this is a typical case where the users, who need it, can install
from specialized OBS repository.

Vladimir
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