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To: Golden Eagle
Just from a quick look, the following are third-party products (not Linux), although Red Hat put them in its security alerts:

I'll stop there, almost all of them are third party products. In fact, many of them are cross-platform (Firefox, Thunderbird, MySQL, PHP, Ethereal, OpenOffice, etc.), so you'd probably have to count them against Windows too.
54 posted on 08/08/2006 9:40:34 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

They were shipped by Red Flag I mean Hat with their Linux so they are part of the core product. Several affecting security tools like seamonkey, openssh, freeradius, ipsec, etc, not to mention the half a dozen or more holes in the kernel, looks like swiss cheese without all those patches.


62 posted on 08/08/2006 12:02:31 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: antiRepublicrat; Golden Eagle
Dont forget:

httpd (apache)
auth_ldap (apache module)
mod_auth_pgsql (apache module)
Ethereal
squid
flash-plugin
RealPlayer
PHP
Dia

Like you Ill stop before I get through more of them but more than the ones anti or I listed will run with the same vulnerabilities on Solaris / AIX / HPUX or other Unixes..
133 posted on 08/09/2006 6:19:15 AM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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