On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 09:27, Phil Knirsch wrote: > Stephen Smoogen wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 16:43, seth vidal wrote: > > > >>So, would it be completely inappropriate to nominate ethereal for > >>removal from fc3 due to its spotty history of security problems? > >> > >>It seems like an excellent place to start thinking of packages that > >>should be maintained, in fedora extras, by the people interested in > >>using them, not by the central developers at red hat. > >> > > > > > > Are most of the problems in ethereal or in libpcap? libpcap seems to > > have a spottier record.. but that would mean a lot more packages to be > > removed. > > > > Actually, ethereal itself has had many more security erratas than > tcpdump/libpcap (i'd say roughly 10 times as many). > > So although tcpdump and libpcap sometimes have a security errata, it's > by for not as serious as ethereal. > > Read ya, Phil My mistake.. I need to sleep more before posting. -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@xxxxxxxx Los Alamos National Lab CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 4-0645 Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- Please, I have had too much of the stupid today. Please wait until -- tomorrow to say these things so my tolerance has refreshed.
